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| | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | anyone have an after-market fuel gage on their AD truck, if so, what brand and did you use the sender required for the org...tank,,,,thanks,,Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | | Anonymous Unregistered | | Anonymous Unregistered | joker, a 3/4in pecan branch about 42in long is the best i've run into . it'll last a long time and you can use it to prod carolyn when she's not waxing red ryder fast enough. tony'n weatherford :p   | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 71 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 71 | joker,
I installed a set of gauges from Classic Instruments in my 49 pickup. I used their sender which was included. My original was pretty much rusted to oblivion so I couldn't have used it even if I wanted to. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 94 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 94 | The original sender was set up to transmit 0 ohms empty and 30 ohms full. Any aftermarket fuel gauge will work if it is set up to accept the 0 to 30 ohm range. Not a lot of gauges will, but there are a few. A buddy of mine got his gauges from Summit. ( www.summitracing.com) I think it was the autometer brand. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 104 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 104 | Fred I had an after market fuel gage in my 51,3100 for some time .I just gave up on the stock gage ,never worked. Any way I used a after market fuel gage I bought in pep boys, SUNPRO, I buoght the sender with it. I used part of my orininal sender with fuel pick-up and and adapted new sender to it ,not hard at all lay the both of them side by side took me about five minutes to figure out ,put sender back in, hang gage under dash and everything works fine . Wayne old navy 51........... | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | guess that I bought the wrong gauge,, 53thearpy mentioned to get one that read 0 empty and 30 ohms full. the one I bought is 240 ohms empty and 33 ohms full so I guess I should look for another one or try to match to their sending unit, have not installed it yet but I am considering trying it, what do you think..regards..Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 | Originally posted by joker:
...get one that read 0 empty and 30 ohms full. the one I bought is 240 ohms empty and 33 ohms full... I was going to explain how to hang a resistor in parallel with the gauge to bring that 240 down to 30 ohms until I re-read your post and see that the gauge you have is reversed, with a high ohm reading empty and a low reading full. Sounds like you need the sending unit too.
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Is that a yes or no that I should try it,,,
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 476 | Joker,
If you are asking me whether or not to try it, I would say no. Let some of the wiser heads weigh in first. If one sender has the high ohm reading when it is low and the other when it is high, I am not sure how your gauge would read that. Maybe backwards. (Or maybe let all the smoke out.) If one sender was 240 ohms full and zero (or a low reading) empty and the other was 30 ohms full and zero empty, then a resistor in the neighborhood of 33 - 39 ohms (and at least a 5W rating) across the two leads would bring the 240 ohms down to 30ish. But yours is reversed. The principal does not apply.
Pity too, that would have been too easy a fix. The resistor would probably cost about a quarter.
Don't lose your head to save a minute,
You need your head, your brains are in it.
Burma-Shave (1947)
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Brad, thanks, I went back to NAPA and got a sender that will match this guage, I will install it tomorrow and hope that I can be able to tell how much gas I have, tired of useing the old write down mileage thing,,,regards,,Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | |
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