[Spridgets] Fuel Gauge and Float Check

[vincent diorio]

Any hints on where to get used but good condition tonneaus (1966 Midget)?

> From: cmanuel at wi.rr.com
> To: spridgets at autox.team.net
> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:57:29 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Fuel Gauge and Float Check
>
> Can a broken sender "kind of" work, or is it all or nothing? Mine is either
> full (when full) and then drops to about 1/3 and acts normally I think.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Frank
> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 7:27 PM
> To: Hotmail
> Cc: spridgets at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Fuel Gauge and Float Check
>
> Hotmail wrote:
> > Hello Group.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have recently purchased a '73 Midget with a broken fuel gauge. As a
> winter
> > project I would like to "fix" it. How do I "test" the circuit - gauge and
> > float outside the car? Having 2 of each I check continuity with an Ohm
> meter
> > and the reading was full scale. I than hooked up one pole of the fuel
> gauge
> > to the Bat + the second to the + pole on the float and second to ground.
I
> > do not get any reading on the gauge when I move the lever on the float.
> What
> > am I doing wrong?
> >
> I check them with a 12v DC power supply on the work bench.
> 12v + to the "B" terminal of the gauge, 12v- to the body of the gauge
> (ground)
> Also 12v- to the body of the sender and a wire from the terminal of the
> sender to the "T" post on the gauge.
> Now slowly move the float up and down and watch the gauge.
> 99 out of 100 times, it's a bad sender.
> The 73 does have a voltage stabilizer in line from the battery to the
> gauge, you do not need this to bench test the set up but the readings
> will be off a little without it.
> If you get an empty reading on the bench with the float down, and a full
> reading with it up, it's good.
>
>
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> Frank Clarici
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