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> Hi Jason > You can't use copper wire for this as copper is a very good > conductor with a low resistance. You need to get some > resistance wire of the correct > thickness- nichrom wire or something. If you could get the > bus sender really cheap you could perhaps use its wire but it > seems a long winded way to go. Thanks for the help Mark. However, about the copper, the coils at the top on both sides of the sender and the sender connection are copper. So I think copper would be ok in this situation. But you may be correct about the resistance being too low. >I've seen type3 senders fairly > regularly on ebay.de go for about 20euros/usd so you should > be able to get one reasonably. That's probably the way I will go, but I thought it would be fun and educational to fix it myself ;) Plus, it would be a good fix for the rest of the T3 community. >I think you can probably get > one from T3D but the postage would be high. You must be able > to get one closer by. Yeah, you can get these new from some VW aftermarket dealers like Rocky Mountain Motor works, they are $60 or $70 USD. >I'm not sure but it might even be > dangerous to use copper wire as you have nothing there to > resist the current of the battery and you really don't want > any sparks inside your tank! BE VERY CAREFUL when messing > around with the fuel tank! Yeah, I understand, but like I said at the beginning of the post there is copper already in there, but I will try to find something else. Jason Smith 71 Square FI AT Columbus, OH USA http://jasontsmith.tripod.com/vw.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org