And Dan comes thru again! 
I have another lead from a CT dealer, courtesy of a guy that Ive traded with on Ebay recently that has said that he has "quite a bit" of NOS coming up on Ebay in the near future, which brings up a question; Whether it be a sending unit for a gas tank, or any other part for an older Chrysler product, how does the locator work?? Who has access? Managers? Higher volume dealers only? Can I get there myself being a non dealer employee, via a site on the Web? I have 4 dealers within about 35-40 miles and no matter which one I call (I usually call the one that I know people at) all they'll tell me is that it isn't in stock at THEIR dealer, and it's NS1. I don't ever remember them telling me that some dealer 1/2 a country away has what I'm after sitting on the shelf collecting dust. Is it like a salvage yard locator, that depends on someone at the yard checking the screen and manually replying, or is it as easy as getting the right site and entering a part number? In this case maybe the Audi dealer may have the best deal since Audi isn't Chrysler? That might just work out... I was told to have my derusted, seal coated tank back Tues! (fantasy over.... I don't have luck like that 
). On the '81 truck, I would think that as long as you get the one for YOUR tank's capacity, you'd have some leeway as far as several year's sending units fitting the same tank? They sure made basically the same truck long enuf, huh??? IIRC, framewise/chassiswise, 72-93 are essentially the same truck, although I know EFI took over in the late 80s, I would venture a guess and say that, your sending unit probably supersedes to that '83 number somewhere along the line. Ive owned several 78-88 trucks, and even across the body change btw 80-81, ALOT interchanges.
