eddie
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| posted on 7/9/03 at 11:52 PM |
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fuel guage and sender compatibilities
if i get a sender and tank as a complete unit, figure a way to mount it into a car and hook all it up to a fuel guage, will the guage read (more or
less) true, or do i need to get a specificly matched guage and sender combination????
eg if i used for example a spitfire or chevette tank & sender unit, and the ford fuel guage from my sierra cluster will it all work, or am i
barking up the wrong tree, in a diffrent forrest, on another continent???
Please feel free in advance to: correct, update, ridicule or laugh and point at any comments made by myself in this post....
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Ian Pearson
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| posted on 8/9/03 at 08:28 AM |
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The sender unit from a spitfire tank is an old smiths one. I doubt it will be compatible with a modern guage. I bought my gauges and sender unit from
Greengauges. Although the sender unit as a whole was a vertical mount, the actual sender box containing the electrical gubbins, is exactly the same as
the smiths unit so I was able to make up a new unit to fit the Spitfire tank.
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 8/9/03 at 09:54 AM |
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they need to match and are many different types....
atb
steve
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Ian Pearson
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| posted on 8/9/03 at 04:42 PM |
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Oops...missed out the obvious!! Sorry, should have said that the Greengauges sender matched the Greengauges fuel gauge.
If you phone around the various gauge manufacturers, they'll be able to tell you if they can match one of their gauges to your sender.
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VinceGledhill
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| posted on 10/9/03 at 07:45 AM |
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If you have the guage and sender and you want to see if it works OK you could wire them up temporarily. Then move the float about.
Instruments of old had voltage stabalisers and worked off a nominal 5 or 10 volts. If the guage you have is set up for this type of system then you
will get faulty readings.
This will show itself as bad readings when you test by moving the float up and down.
Simply wire it up on the bench with a spare battery, or wires coming from your existing battery, then move the float about and see if you get the
correct reading. I.E. Showing empty when the float is at the bottom, full when at the top and half full when the float is in the middle. If not you
have a compatability problem.
Regards
Vince Gledhill
Time Served Auto Electrician
Lucas Leeds 1979-1983
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