{"id":173,"date":"2009-12-27T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2009-12-28T08:20:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T13:20:54","slug":"wow-a-car-repair-i-dont-want-to-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"wow a car repair I don&#8217;t want to repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the afternoon replacing the fuel gauge sending unit on my &#8217;04 Chevrolet Malibu.  Had to drop the gas tank and two of the four bolts holding it in place were very hard to reach.  What a pain &#8211;  at least I didn&#8217;t have to deal with stuck or broken bolts.  Last sending unit I replaced was in a &#8217;91 Ford Escort and that car had an access panel under the back seat.  So much easier to do that it is hard to imagine why having an access panel isn&#8217;t a standard design feature.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_180\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fuel-gauge-sender1-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Bad wipers on the offending fuel gauge sender\" title=\"fuel-gauge-sender\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fuel-gauge-sender1-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fuel-gauge-sender1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bad wipers on the offending fuel gauge sender<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Had to buy an overpriced sending unit from Chevy, since aftermarket companies only sell the entire fuel pump assembly and that costs about $500.  The wipers on the original unit were just plain worn out. I hope that this one lasts a bit longer than the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the afternoon replacing the fuel gauge sending unit on my &#8217;04 Chevrolet Malibu. Had to drop the gas tank and two of the four bolts holding it in place were very hard to reach. What a pain &#8211; at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}