Question about installing master cylinder on 68 dart

While I was under there I looked at the fuel sender seal. The sender is one of those Chinese ones. It’s brand new. Someone stuck a length of wire under the rubber hose going from the metal tube from the sender and under the other end of the rubber hose. I took that out and tightened it down. It seems that the hose was leaking

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