I thought your answer to the backwards reading gas gauge question was pretty lame. How about maybe everybody was telling the truth, and the float assembly had been mounted upside down? Perhaps it was of rather symmetrical construction and looked fine either way.

Backwards gas gauge

DLichman June 5, 2011, 2:03pm 5

I was thinking that IF the chafed wire excuse was correct, AND the chafed wire was around the gas tank - the weight of the gasoline might shift the tank enough to un-short the short.