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G`day all,
I have a HZ yellow needle GTS dash. The fuel gauge only reads 3/4 when completley full and when it reads empty it only takes 40 litres of fuel to refill (capacity 70 litres in a van). I have checked the sender, all spot on 73 - 10 ohms.
There is no gauge shop left in Adelaide to calibrate this except Gauge Works (beale instruments) and they have already looked at it and said "they can fault it, its as good as it gets"
Should I just bend the needle around a bit to read higher or is there another way ?
Anyone have any ideas ?
Tony
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Take your sender as well as the gauge in to them and have them matched up.
Otherwise, it must be a mechanical fault. Has anyone taken the gauge apart before and, maybe, not put the needle back on in the right spot?
Cheers...Dave
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Qute,
I took them the whole car!
When they had the sender out working it by hand it read reasonably ok thats when they said they couldnt fault it. So I asked how much petrol was in the tank, they said 3/4 easy. Then put it back together for me and ha
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I've read in a few places that the float can fill with fuel thus giving false readings. Might be worth checking. Take it out, and submerge the float in a container of fuel and see if there are any air bubbles.
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May also be worth checking the wire going from the sender to the gauge. Try by-passing it to see if it makes any difference.
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Try bending the float arm about an inch so it sits further in the fuel. The float is gets saturated and looses some boyency. Thats what my problem was about 10years ago and has been reasonably good since.
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Ah, didn't realise you took the whole car in...As Holdenute and Crowe said, the floats become less of a float over the years and bending the arm can help (forgot about that the other night...)
You could also call someone like AISAT in Welshpool in Pert
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