re:GTV fuel gauge

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

Okay, here's my fuel sender problem (GTV6).  So I locked my keys in 
the car, which means getting in through the rear hatch, which means 
disconnected the gas strut from the hatch.  And I was in a hurry, so 
I didn't put it back.  A few days later the hatch was still 
disconnected when a friend was about to get into the car with a hug 
bag of concrete mix or something on his lap.  I said "Don't you want 
to put that in the trunk?"  Well, despite his familiarity with my 
car, he didn't notice anything unusual when I had to heft the hatch 
open and then lift the parcel shelf out of the way, or when I said 
"Whatever you do, don't crush the hatch strut."  You can imagine what 
he did with the huge bag of concrete.  The strut rod is only slightly 
bent, and the carpet on the extreme rear of the car is only slightly 
torn, but the fuel sender got crushed by the strut, and it looks 
fine, but intermittently reads a quarter tank low.  I suppose it's 
more likely to read correctly when it's full.  Jiggling the wires 
will make it start reading correctly when it isn't, but I replaced 
the connectors on all three wires, to no avail.  Is this something 
that I can just get from APE?  Will I have to re-learn the relative 
accuracy of my fuel gauge?  This has already cost me a bunch of money 
because I wanted to avoid buying (heavily-taxed) gasoline while I was 
in Canada, but I didn't know if I could make it back to the states or 
not because I didn't know whether I was low on fuel or had >quarter 
tank!

Thanks,
Joe
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