[tcb] Re: Gas Guage problems
- From: ThatVWGuy@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:53:41 +0000
I'll be pulling the engine in the next 3 - 6 months anyway. I'll replace the
sender at that time if the problem hasn't gone away.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 08:25:07
To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Gas Guage problems
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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