Gas Tank Float Question

[JohnPi]

OK, I've done a bit of searching, and couldn't find sufficient information on the subject. I have the truck in my sig with a Supercab. I love the truck, but it has one minor, aggravating issue that I've been dealing with for a few years. There is no float in the gas tank.

I actually bought a brass one a few years ago, but the attachment method I used (steel wire) didn't work.

My question is . . . how do you replace a missing float? Since I never took the unit apart when it was working (original fuel pump), I don't really know what it the original was supposed to look like, and what material it was made of. I hear there were foam floats, brass floats and plastic floats.

I know that the easiest, if not most expensive, way to fix the problem is to buy a new fuel pump assembly. Since the pump works, I can't justify spending $150 on a new assembly. At that price, I'll just get gas when the odometer reads 325 miles (or the engine starts sputtering, like it did yesterday, when the odo read 355 )

Are there any tricks that work that can be had for around $5 - $15? Or, is there anyone out there making these things? The last time I went to a dealer, they told me that the only way to get the float was with a complete assembly.

Any help would be appreciated. I know we lost a lot of information with the server issue, so I would imagine this information existed at one point in time, and just hasn't been brought up again. Thanks for looking.

 

[2manyfords]

My '92 Ranger has a brass float and it clips onto the rod that holds it. I had to replace it last spring because it sank to the bottom. I had a used float assembly from an '88 Ranger that I took the float from.

I'm not sure if you can buy a float seperatly from the whole assembly. Check with your Ford dealer to find out.

 

[alaskan155]

dont part houses sell floats? thought i saw them online when i was looking for 1 for my b2

 

[snake]

Read more closely, he is having trouble figuring out a way to attach the float to the assembly...

The factory one has a half-loop kinda thing that the brass float just clips onto. If we could see the thing we may be able to help since you might have something different inside your tank. Of course, I realize it is still inside the tank and all. Wonder if it broke off or is just different? I've had two or three of them off and all were the brass float clipped inside the hook.