Fuel gauge "reading" inaccurate - can I do this?

[Gary Lewis]

Well spotted!  That thing is bad.  How did you find it?

[FuzzFace2]

See there is a reason for everything or so they say

I use a little wheel bearing grease on the rubber O-ring to hold it in place when installing the sender.
I think I am lucky, will not know till I put gas in the tank, but the O-ring was still in place when I removed the sender and looked like it stayed in place when I put it back together.
Dave ----

[CountryBumkin]

Once I had the driveshaft down, I went around and checked all the u-joints for smoothness/movement. it was obvious that something was wrong when I got to that one. it's the only one bad.

This driveshaft has the Spicer 1330 u-joints. The ones I installed did not have grease fittings. Perhaps if I had grease fittings I would have seen the wear/movement while greasing.

I've been considering another mod - but I'll post new.

[Gary Lewis]

Obviously a good idea, Mike. But that saved a problem down the road, and maybe ON the road.