FUEL SENDER ASSEMBLY HAVING REDUCED WEAR INCLUDING LOW WEAR RESISTOR CARD

The early wear-out of a fuel sender resistor assembly, especially the card and contact components, has been a durability and cost concern, resulting in frequent engineering redesign. This liquid level sensing device called a fuel sender, has been an expensive and annoying vehicle repair item. Not only do fuel sender designs need to be accurate and durable, designs must be capable of being produced economically. Designs with no moving fuel sender parts are not practical due to cost disadvantages. This paper describes design improvements which address the problems of premature resistor card wear-out in standard fuel sender designs. This paper does not address fuel measurement.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper appears in SAE SP-964, "Automotive Display Systems and IVHS".
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • Gaston, R D
• Publication Date: 1993-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 27-32
• Serial:
  • SAE Special Publications
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Design; Durability; Fuel systems; Improvements
• Old TRIS Terms: Fuel sender assembly
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00634506
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1560913495
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE/SP-93/964, Paper 930455, Paper 930456
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 23 1993 12:00AM