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G'day all,
The fuel gauge in the tonner stopped working today, no warning, just working fine one minute, nothing the next. Can someone tell me how to check whether it is the gauge or the sender, and are these still available anywhere, rare spares or something,or am I stuffed? I use the car ewvery day for work and cant afford to not have a fuel gauge.
Cheers.Russ.
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If you take the wire off the sender unit and earth it the gauge should read full if i am not mistaken.
hope this helps
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Raress now have new fuel sender units in stock.That might help.
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Probably as simple as a cracked wire somewhere on the line. I don't profess to know much of the black art of auto electrics but like Les said if you remove the sender wire at the sender unit & earth (with ignition on, obviously) it should show the gauge r
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It reads backwards becuase you have the wrong sender, there are 2 types.
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If there are two types how would you know which one you need
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There's the early one and the late one.... :-))
The early ones are up to the end of 72, IIRC and the later ones (same right through to WB) started in Jan 73. Maybe Dr Terry can confirm if I've remembered the dates correctly.
Cheers...Dave
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Cool - that's an easy fix. Do you know if they are easy to differentiate?
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Hi Guys.
Early HQ senders have the same resistance as all early Holdens, back to the FX. They have 0 ohms when empty, 15 ohms at half tank & 30 ohms full.
The later (thermal ) senders, from late HQ to HZ (& also WB commercials) are 73 ohms whem empt |
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Yeah thanks guys I sorted it out , seems a stone or something has been thrown up and chopped the sender wire but not quite right through so it was hard to see at first glance, so I joined it together and everything is honky dory.Cheers.Russ.
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