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Re: Fuel Guage - calibration?

To: cfiddes@direct.ca, mgs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Fuel Guage - calibration?
From: David Councill <dcouncil@inetco.net>
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 16:34:23 -0600
At 03:20 PM 5/6/97 +0000, cfiddes@direct.ca wrote:
>Hi folks.
>
>I kept an eye on the now defunct thread about broken gas gauges but 
>nobody described the situation I'v got, so here goes....
>
>About two weeks into my new car and I've noticed now that my gas 
>gauge registers two gallons of gas (in a car with 7+gallon tank) as 
>half-full.  When the tank is full, the needle goes all the way past 
>the "F" and stays there for quite some time before falling off. Once 
>the needle reaches about the half-full mark, I get the number of 
>miles I would expect from two gallons.  
>

Sounds like a typical Smith's fuel guage to me.


David


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