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karlak

posted on 19/10/09 at 08:21 AM Reply With Quote
Fuel Gauge / sender

You may have seen that I have got my first kit-car this weekend - A 4 year old Indy with Pinto 2.0l setup. I am very new to the whole kit car scene, and have limited mechanical knowledge, but that will change

Having looked over the car I have a few small niggles / issues that I would like to fix, nothing major.

The first is that the Car has the Sierra clocks installed, but does not have the fuel gauge working. As far as I can tell (and I may be wrong here) it appears that the wires are in place at the fuel tank, but there is no sender unit installed. The tank is plastic, so is this an easy job to get a sender unit installed - I guess it may be worth checking the wiring and gauge first with some type of diags test ? Have Q's on a couple of other things, but will start a new thread for them, so they dont get lost in here.

Cheers

[Edited on 19/10/09 by karlak]





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whitestu

posted on 19/10/09 at 08:49 AM Reply With Quote
Fitting a sender is easy enough, but I'd think about whether you want to change the Sierra clocks before you change anything.


Stu

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karlak

posted on 19/10/09 at 08:58 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by whitestu
Fitting a sender is easy enough, but I'd think about whether you want to change the Sierra clocks before you change anything.


Stu


Yep, fair point. In all honesty, with being all new to this, I have not seen many examples of alternatives. So will have a look around for ideas




[Edited on 19/10/09 by karlak]





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whitestu

posted on 19/10/09 at 09:15 AM Reply With Quote
quote:

Are the Sierra clocks seen as a bad idea?



Not really, but most people tend to use something that looks a bit nicer. I used Sierra clocks initially, but have since changed them.

My point was that it is worth thinking about how you want to car to be before spending time fixing stuff you then want to change later on - I'm speaking from experience!!



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