Testing fuel sender

[BlissfullyCrusin]

I pulled my gas tank a while back and before I put it back, I wanted to be sure the fuel sender is in good shape. However, the fuel sender I pulled does not look like any sender I've seen pictures of. It's got the VW symbol on it so I know it's from some VW (maybe not mine..).

It basically looks like a long cylinder. No float ball or anything like that. It sounds like the float is inside the cylinder, as I can feel something rolling around in there. I attached a ohmmeter to the blade connection and various grounds but I could never get it to register any readings.

Does this make sense to anyone?
I don't currently have a picture of it..but I can probably get one tonight.

[Mark]

Does it look like this?
If so, these can sometimes be salvaged by a simple cleanup. The metal tube comes off to give access to the float portion inside.
From there, it's fairly straight-forward how it works, or should work at least. :)

[BlissfullyCrusin]

Yes! That's it!
Mine looks a lil wider then those pics, but overall it's the same.

I wasn't sure if I had to disassemble it to test so I didn't want to take a chance of breaking it.

Thanks SO much, I'll be testing this tonight =)