>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:02:57 -0500
>To:"A.D.Smith" <A.D.Smith@boris.umds.ac.uk>
>From:hovisa@mailhost.nando.net (Allan R. Hovis)
>Subject:Re: Fuel gauge problems
>
>>Hi there all,
>> I might have known that the few months of Lucas-trouble free
>>motoring
>>were too good to last !
>>
>>Here's a puzzle for you all, I know it's not a serious life threatening
>>problem,but
>>my fuel gauge just stopped working.
>>
>>Occasionally it starts to work again long enough for me to check how much fuel
>
> I
>>have, and then dies. Very nice of it to allow me this little snapshot really.
>>
>>When it's dead, it hovers just below the "Empty" level. The light still
>>works in
>>the dark, so I don't reckon it's an earth problem. When it works, it
>>comes up to
>>the level pretty quickly, so I don't think it's just a sunken float in
>>the tank.
>>
>I have exactly the same problem and my sender is not more than a year old.
>I think what is happening is that the resistance wire which the float
>moves a contact over is being coated by something in the gas or from crud
>in the tank. I have taken the sender our and LIGHTLY cleaned the contact
>and resistance wire and it will work for a while but soon is very
>intermitant again. Not sure what to do about this except clean the tank
>(yuck) so I am using the mileage counter as a fuel gauge!
>
>Allan Hovis
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