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Drawing pictures helps me make sense of things :egeek: It will hopefully help me remember when its time to wire it into the car.
It's been a bit of a head scratcher that's for sure.

Now its back to the fuel tank. Was hoping to do a height measurement today, but I can't for the life of me work out ...

Nerd alert. Here is everything explain in pictures.

Wiper set up fun and games.

So inspired by the intermittent wiper set up on Blacky’s FB Ute https://www.fbekholden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=273876#p273876 , I purchased a couple of MaxTronic intermittent wiper controllers.

Things have progressed a bit since I posted in Re: Neil's FB Station ...

Thanks Blacky. I have a short straight hose, ID 57mm, to connect between the tank and the filler pipe. Think I’ll have to ditch that for a 45 degree one and adjust from there. Yeah mucking around with the original pipe is probably a bit of overkill as its a long way off at the moment

Thanks Harv ...

Quick test fit.
Kept the filler neck off the old tank thinking I could re use it. Not quite! Ideas anyone? I thought of pie cutting the neck but if there is a simpler solution let me know.

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Cut out the metal from the floor and re used it to patch the gaps left by the spare wheel and ...

Mustang tank install time.

Started off with a measuring tape and some CAD. Inlet pipe is slightly offset from centre by 20mm to the right, so tank has to be offset to the left.

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Plan was to build a frame out of 90 degree bent sheetmetal. As I don’t have a brake I got creative with ...

I honestly found this video on YouTube extremely helpful in understanding how a wiper motor works, but more importantly, the roll that the switch plays in the operation of the park circuit. Up until watching this I had no clue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ww5-pmiokc

From there I worked out if ...

I'm going through this at the moment with a 2 speed BA wiper using a delco switch. Obviously notgoing to help you much with your set up but I guess the concepts should hold.

Picture tell a thousand word. +12 to the NO side of the relay, the yellow wire is the park wire from the wiper. When ...

Thanks everyone. For reference, this was the sender I used - C5ZZ-9275-C 64-7 FUEL SENDER 5/16 TUBE SS Got a pretty good price from https://harrysclassicsmustangparts.com.au/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=2859

With the sender installed in the tank the float was hitting both the top and bottom of ...

Adjustment time.

Clamped it shut and tested. Full empty is reading 3 ohms so need to bend the arm a bit. First take a picture to reference the correct float position when empty.

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Need to bend this part of the arm in a counter clockwise direction.

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So I know that ...

Well had success. Not with the FM101 but with some brute force to the sender.

First up cut a notch in the plastic resistor holder so I could flip it 180 degrees and get 0 ohms for empty and 75 full.

Unfortunately the plastic housing does not fit back on due to an indent in the metal backing plate ...

Got a real head scratcher trying to install/calibrate a Mustang sender to the FB/EK gauge.
--Edit its FM101 not LM101

I’m using a FM101 as per Drew's build. This allows you to calibrate a different sender to match your gauge. In this case a 10/73 ohm sender to a 30/0 ohm gauge . I bought 2 of this ...

Apart from over complicating everything I do, the second biggest obstacle I face with this build is procrastination. Think I started looking at replacing the fuel tank with a Mustang one over 2 years ago. I have even had the tabs open in my web browser for all that time. Well, I bit the bullet as ...

Impressive - I would have been happy getting it to the forth picture

Yeah that's the issue I'm trying to find a neat solution to. When you think about it the stalk wiper switch is at least 2 switches (one for OFF/INT/SLOW/FAST, the other for intermittent duration), just in a neater package.
My preference would be to have a wiper switch with 4 positions, OFF ...