MY Tech Manual Says...MK 1,II,III,IV..9.9 US Gallons
1500....8.7 US Gallons
>From: "Tedd Ross Pitts" <ross@fnsg.com>
>Reply-To: "Tedd Ross Pitts" <ross@fnsg.com>
>To: triumphs@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Spit 1500 fuel tank capacity?
>Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:51:17 -0500
>
>I'm glad you asked the question, Tim. My tank on my '73 only
>reads two-thirds when full and always has. I can put in around 7
>gallons, but I've never run it empty so I don't know how much it
>actually holds. I hope somebody knows.
>
>Tedd
>
>On 14 Dec 2000, at 10:39, Tim Gaines wrote:
>
> >
> > Here is a question I have had for nearly 13 years and have been too
> > sheepish to ask. The fuel gauge in my 1980 Spit has never read higher
> > than about 2/3 full after a fill-up. When the gauge reads empty and
> > I do fill up, it takes only 6.5 or 7 gallons. I always assumed the
> > gauge reads wrong and that there must be a few gallons remaining
> > even when it reads empty. But, working on that theory, I have
> > occasionally run out of gas and found that the fill-up still
> > required only 7 gallons. This past summer I replaced the sending
> > unit with another taken off a parts car, and it read the same as
> > my original one. The guage does read full when the lead wires to
> > the sender are shorted though. Then I found a way to adjust the
> > sender so the gauge reads full when the tank is full, but now it
> > reads about 1/3 full when I run out of gas. So it appears that my
> > tank capacity is about 7 gallons. But the tank looks just like the
> > original ones pictured in the parts catalogs. So, if it is original,
> > I see only two possibilities:
> >
> > 1) There is something taking up space in the tank. But, if that is
> > the case, it would have to be blocking the float in some way too.
> >
> > 2) Maybe when I think I have run out of fuel, I really haven't. Last
> > week, when I ran out on the way to work, there was an obvious
> > vacuum hiss when I popped the filler cap. I was in too much of
> > a hurry to try to restart; I just dumped about a half gallon in
> > from a small can I have started carrying recently. I know, I know,
> > that is not smart, and I will stop as soon as I either solve this
> > problem or reset the sender so the gauge reads empty when it really
> > is empty. Anyway, if there is a problem with the breather line
> > and the carbon cannister that is producing a vacuum which overcomes
> > the fuel pump, why is my gauge not reading full scale? In all
> > honesty, I have come to believe that when I run out of gas, I'm
> > REALLY out; I don't hear any sloshing when I rock the car.
> >
> > So, WHAT'S UP? Thanks for any insight you can provide.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tim Gaines
> > Clinton, SC
> > 1980 Spitfire
> > 1974 TR6
>
>
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