peterparsons
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| posted on 17/7/07 at 01:49 PM |
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which fuel sender unit do I use
as above, which fuel sender unit do I use on the fuel tank of my locost? Which one are you using?
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mike smith1
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| posted on 17/7/07 at 01:52 PM |
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The most common answer to this is to use the one that is specified for your gauge. As the resistances need to match up
Mike
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BenB
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| posted on 17/7/07 at 01:58 PM |
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Yup! Use the one designed for the dial. There's no "standard" gauge so you're pretty much guaranteed a mismatch unless you use
the designed dial....
On my brothers old car (which admittidly he didn't build), the dial read 3/4 full when it was full and was empty when the dial read 1/2 full....
Not exactly useful and unsuprisingly we ran out of petrol quite a lot.... The official technique was to dip a bit of wood in the tank and see how far
up the stick was wet.......
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caber
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| posted on 17/7/07 at 02:26 PM |
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I have a VDO gauge and an Austin maxi sender bought off ebay NOS. They match well enough to know when I am empty , not filled the tank yet so
don't know how accurate is over the range. I tried a Range rover one I had as well it worked OK but I didn't use it as it is side entry
rather than top. It depends where you plan to get the bits from, if doing a scrappy then collect a few and see if they work, if you know the
resistance the gauge is meant to work with you can do it the smart way and add a resistor in series or parallel to get to the right range!
Caber
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peterparsons
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| posted on 17/7/07 at 05:25 PM |
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Yea, I have no gauges yet so I was wondering where to start....
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