The problem: rusty fuel sender flange = bad ground = fuel gauge stopped working.
The Professional solution: drain tank, remove sending unit, wire brush away rust or purchase new sending unit, purchase new gasket, reinstall, spray everything with something to stop rust.
Cheapskate solution: file rust off small spot on tube part of sender, use small hose clamp to attach a ground wire, cover clamp and wire with duct tape, run ground wire to good ground inside trunk, drive with the satisfaction of knowing that in less than 5 minutes, you put off the problem for at least another six months to a year at no real cost. 
FastCat, izzat you??? LMAO…
for a quickie repair!
LOL. Since I took the trim off around the front windsheild the sun has cracked and baked the window seal so it started leaking. Guess who has probably a quarter inch thick (by now due to having to add more over time) of silicone around their window… this guy! hahaha.
I have new window seals ready to go in. Along with a headliner. But going to wait on paint first.
Ha! I got you both beat. :1poke:
When the windshield washer reservoir on my beater daily driver continued to leak even after repeated repairs with silicone, I said screw it and removed it completely. Then I drilled a hole in the cap of the 1 gallon jug of windshield washer fluid, shoved the hose down in it and zip-tied the whole gallon jug between the hood hinge and master cylinder. No more leaks and it doesn’t need to get refilled nearly as often.
Ha, I love it! Cracked reservoir in my Bronco, prepare to get Hero’d this weekend!!
I will probably use a coat hanger. 
That’s nothin’!
The gas struts that hold up the hood on my wife’s Dodge Ram pickup (I know, not a Cougar) both gave out - open the hood and it falls right back down on your head. Wait- that’s kinda like a '70 Cougar with weak hood springs; except instead of just a snaggle-tooth, there’s an entire grille assembly to attack you!
Replacement struts are $56.72 - each. If I remember correctly, they also fit on the rear hatch of a Grand Caravan.
At the same time, my 16-yr-old son got wild-and-crazy digging in one of the horse stalls, hit caliche (spanish for “really nasty-azz unmeltable clay”) and managed to snap off a shovel handle right at the head.
Anybody see where I’m going with this? 
Ahh, you want to use the shovel handle to hold up the hood?
No he’s gonna make a new shovel out of clay, and make his kid hold the hood open. Pay attention!!
Thought I was,…must be the pain meds Im on making me not thingkkk right or left. 
Dang tmh, LMAOWSMOBUK!!!
(laughing my a55 off while spewing mouthful of beverage upon keyboard)
Oh good grief! I’m so glad I automatically popped open the secomd page tonight… else I’d be like desertdave, spewing Michelob all over the keyboard on my 3 week-old laptop!
Yes, the shovel handle’s “pointy end” (where it broke off) sits in a hole in the right frame rail just behind the radiator core support; the other end pokes into a hole in the hood frame right where the grille assembly bolts to the hood.
Did I REALLY just have to explain this one? It’s a 10-yr-old DODGE pickup with a 360 (Okay, okay, “5.9 Liter MPFI” - STILL just a Mopar 360!) in it - was I REALLY gonna drop a hunnert and eight simoleans on some gas struts? When after 10 years ownership, I’m still the only one who remembers where the inside handle for the Hood Latch is???
Wow, just… wow.
It’s amazing how long a cheapskate repair can last, too. While under my dash shooting some grease into my clutch pedal bushings I was surprised to find a paperclip inserted where the retaining pin should be for the brake pedal switch. My immediate thought was “What moron would use a …” but then I remembered making that roadside repair late one night four or five years ago.
Yeah Im about due for a complete check of every nut and bolt holding my suspension and steering together. All the years of putting things on temporarily just to see how it looks because I couldn’t wait until the weekend to fully put things together. Or the times I ran out of colter pins. Im pretty sure I have every thing sound right now.
But once I drove the car around the block without that pin that holds the break pedel on the little deal there. I wanted to hurry and drive around the block since I just finished my suspension at the time and hadn’t drove the car in probably 2 years. Luckily the pedal didnt slip off or the brakes would have went to the ground and I would have been in someones living room ha.