:{THC}:YosamiteSam
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 09:58 AM |
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fuel guage reading backwards!
have VDO top tank mount sender with racetech electrical guage.. Swapped the old westfield led type for the racetech one.. But the guage is reading
backwards! Getting fuller.. Lol any ideas how to rectify it?
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 10:03 AM |
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Praise the lord it’s a miracle!! 
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Humbug
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 10:03 AM |
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Swap the connections around?
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 10:04 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Humbug
Swap the connections around?
Blasphemer! 
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 10:08 AM |
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Leave it as is and sell all the extra fuel to us Locosters!!! You could make a fortune there!!!! 
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omega0684
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 10:12 AM |
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as you look at the back of the gauge the 12v supply should go in the left of the three connections on the bottom, the earth in the middle and the
sender wire in the right, the twi connections on the top are for the light.
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handyandy
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 10:40 AM |
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anyone got a syphon tube?? you keep him talking & i,ll sort the fuel level out
as victor meldrew would say....
i doooonnn,ttt believe it !
i,ve just realised the car in question lives in same town as me ,
right where,s that tube???
honestly same town, how spooky
[Edited on 23/2/09 by handyandy]
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Davey D
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 10:44 AM |
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On my sender in the tank you can swap which side of the sender the arm with the float comes out of thus altering the sweep area depending on the tank
level
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 07:04 PM |
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Had the same problem with my Greengauges gauge and sender . Turned out that the assembly diagram on their website was incorrect. Turning the resistor
pack over sorted the problem out. I don't think I'm the only person to have had this ?
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 23/2/09 at 07:29 PM |
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I had an incompatible gauge and sender too. In the end, like Rusty, I turned the resistor over in the sender and bent the arm a bit and that solved
it.
Its because there's 2 standards. One that reads 0 - xx Ohms and another that starts at 50 odd Ohms and stops at around 180 Ohms I think. Anyway,
you get the theory even if the numbers aren's right.
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:{THC}:YosamiteSam
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 10:35 PM |
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i have turned the small removable arm over to cure it - but its not clibrated to the guage - well nearly right - when the sender sweep is all the way
to empty the guage ont go below 1/4 full - presume the range is out - any ideas how to rectify that? new sender of course to match but then the age
old worry - will it fit the hole in the tank?
lol - probs are never easy.. bit by bit they are chipped away at..
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