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This is the one I made from the $21 ebay 0-90 ohm sender.
I flipped the rheostat upside down so full is 0 Ohms, and electrically isolated it so the body was no longer the ground, and made a new tank top flange out of a large OD commercial washer. Everything is sealed with viton o-rings and/or marine JB Weld.
Total incremental cost was about $25, plus a few hours.
Well, it would probably take me 2 hours to make another one, i had three times that in this one figuring out how to do it.
I chamfered both side of the bolt thru holes on the fuel pump plate and level sender plate, and installed three proper size viton o-rings on each bolt, o-ring between bolt head and washer, an o-ring under washer, and after inserting the bolts thru the plates, another o-ring under that to seal the tank top bolt holes.
#010 o-ring on the 1/4" bolts, #011 o-ring on the 5/16" bolts.
I am hoping that will keep and fuel seep contained from migrating up the threads.