[tcb] Re: Gas Guage problems

  • From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 06:34:31 -0700 (PDT)

Hardest part is draining the gas and putting the neck
rubber on.
--- Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Agreed.
> More of an irritation than anything.
> 
> sammie smith wrote:
> > 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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