[tcb] Re: Gas Guage problems

  • From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:07:42 -0500

Paul sleeps in his. There was a joke at the Classic. We were looking for him 
and couldn't find him and, I forget who, knocked on his treasure chest door to 
see if he was in there.

I think it might be a Plan B if Lois ever kicks him out.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ATX BUS 
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:55 AM
  Subject: [tcb] Re: Gas Guage problems


  I hear those treasure chests can make a great place to sleep.


  Jeff 




  ----- Original Message ----
  From: Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 11:49:43 AM
  Subject: [tcb] Re: Gas Guage problems

  Now that I would like to see!

  sammie smith wrote:
  > Yeah!  That was a tounge in cheek response.  Have you ever seen Paul
  > attempt to crawl in his treasure chest area, with only one door, to
  > attempt to work on the fuel tank.  It is almost easier to pull the engine.
  >
  > */mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxx/* wrote:
  >
  >    On a bay window Double cab you have to remove the rear seat to
  >    access the gas tank and then crawl in. I think I would prefer to
  >    pull the engine.
  >      
  >
  >        -------------- Original message --------------
  >        From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  >        Yeah, but it's a simple fix.  All you have to do is spend
  >        about $100 on a new sender, remove the engine, remove the fuel
  >        tank, replace the sender, and then replace all of the above. 
  >        Only one hard days job.  Or you can do what some cheap VW
  >        mechanics do and simply cut a hole in the body above the fuel
  >        sender and replace it that way.  I hate it when the sender in
  >        a bus goes bad.  May be better to just wait till the next time
  >        you have the engine out and do it then.  Course if you have a
  >        DC or an SC then it's simple to get the tank out, right Paul?
  >
  >        */Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >/* wrote:
  >
  >            First, I don't think there is any adjustment.
  >            Did you check to see if the gage is grounded well.
  >            If it's not the gage then I can see it being a couple of
  >            other things:
  >            Is it a bay tank in a split? If so, did you replace the
  >            split sender
  >            with a bay sender?
  >            Could be that the sender is old and has built up crud in
  >            the tube
  >            causing it to stick 3/4 up and thus not reading full on
  >            the gage.
  >
  >
  >            Dan wrote:
  >            > When my tank is full my gas gauge only reads 3/4's Is
  >            there a way to
  >            > adjust it?
  >            >
  >            > -Dan
  >            >
  >
  >
  >
  >





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