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I replaced the gas tank sender in my 38 with the aftermarket model from Chevy of the 40s. First try it turned out the connection stud on top grounded o the trunk floor. The solution was to put a piece of plastic in between. The readings are good but the fuel gauge vibrates wildly back and forth when the car goes over uneven ground. The wiper in the sender looks like the spring in a ball point pen, not like the old ones:

Made in China.

Tiny, was that the one you used?

The aftermarket one I used was a universal that was adjustable. It would have worked in a wide variety of applications. I eventually found two used OEM senders on ebay. I took a chance and bought them & they both work. I have one as a spare and sold the aftermarket unit a while back. Chevs part number 1516250 looks like the universal I had.

Hi Tiny, I see you got two OEM senders off of ebay! It seems every time I try to go on ebay all I get is hot rod stuff. What right buttons aren't I pushing to get to the 37's parts? Thank's
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Joe's37

Ebay is BAD about that. I don't spend much time there these days because of that. Sellers put in their listing that whatever widget they're selling "will fit '38 Chevy" and end up in my search results. To the best of my knowledge you just have to trudge through it. It was probably 10 years ago I bought them.

I agree with Tiny about eBay listings today. It is impossible to filter them to relevant vintage parts.

I never realized there are so many places wanting me to buy a tilt steering column for my '37! Or a Mustang II style front suspension!

Those listings are a scourge. Search strings like

"37 Chevrolet"

note the quotes, or

37 Chevrolet -fits

(minus fits) weed out a lot of the crap. It isn't perfect, but it is something to try.

It seems like an easy enough fix! All they'd have to do is put the vintage parts on one site, and hot rod parts on another. Or am I missing the bigger picture?? Thank's bloo, that seemed to filter out alot!
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Joe's37

The discipline that Joe describes seemed to be well practiced 10 years ago. Today it is not.

The limitation is that the seller controls where and how parts are listed. If someone wants to list a Samsung refrigerator as a car part for a 1941 Chevy in eBay Motors, it will show up when you search "1941 Chevy".

I save my search criteria ie (1937,1938,1939 pontiac) and then when the search produces crap unrelated, I go back into Advanced Search and add (copy/paste) the problem seller to the "excluded seller" section and resave the search. The first time you do this there will be dozens of sellers to add but eventually you will go weeks without seeing crap.

I also specify my search to show "most recent" so I only need to scan a day or two of items at any given time.

Tim, I don't see any place to exclude a seller. I see an option to add a seller.

Mine looks like this under the Sellers section of Advanced Search:
I did have Ebay render this useless once in the last 5 years and had to redo it. Ebay literally started filtering out my filtering so the crap came back and I had to build a fresh search from scratch. I have about 10 searches set up this way for different specific items.

Gotcha! I see it now. Doh!

Edit: I tried removing two sellers. Each time I'd add the seller they would be removed but when I'd add the next the first would reappear.

I have to highlight and Copy the seller's name and then highlight a spot in the line of about 50 sellers and then past the newest seller. Each one needs a comma and then a space in order to work properly. Sometimes it fights back but suspect it is cookies, my fingers or just a quirk.

I'll try it again.