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Daxter, the float is common to most Italian cars & some BMWs. If you're familiar with wrecking yards, Alfas, FIATs and probably others from the 70s & 80s use the same brand of gas gauge sender although the actual sender assemblies will not interchange: they're all too short to fit a tall Pantera tank and some do not have the red light for low-fuel. The floats simply pop out of the arms and can be swapped in a second. There are two types: (glued together) black plastic and (soldered together) brass. Both work equally.

Note that you can check your sender (with it out of the car), using a VOM. Hook the meter to the two cleaned spade-lugs and move the arm. You should get a change in resistance on the meter. If you get no change in resistance or it's infinitely resistive to start with, on the side of the sender's extremely brittle plastic cover is a small sliding door; remove it and careful searching will show a tiny broken wire. The potentiometer windings often wear thru from rubbing contact with the arm during normal use.

There is no practical way to fix a broken-wire sender, and I've tried- believe me. Be thankful the price of a new one is only $150; before Wilkinson had them reproduced a few years ago, used senders were upwards of $300 with zero guarantee. There are NO interchanges for senders from other cars, either; the Pantera is unique. All the vendors carry reproduced late senders and some may have good used floats.

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