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#86342 08/28/2003 2:45 PM | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 68 | Some one please tell me how this connection is made. I have a new sender unit and all the other gauges in the cluster in my 53 work so I feel certain the fuel gauge will. What I want to do is, run wire from the sender unit as directly to the fuel gauge as I can. There are two terminals on the fuel gauge, what goes where? | | |
#86343 08/28/2003 3:06 PM | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Don't know about the '53 but the sender is attached to the right-side post of the fuel gauge on a '54. The wire goes directly to the tank sender unit (the sender wire has a splice connector somewhere behind the master cylinder).
On the sender post of the '54 gauge is a cardboard label with a warning not to attach the hot lead to the sender post. The hot lead can come from the ammeter gauge or from ignition switch (a lead that is only on when the ignition switch is on).
Since the '53 gauge is different from the '54, wait to hear from someone with correct information about which lead is hot and which lead is for the sender.
By the way, just in case you have a 12v conversion, a 12v system with stock fuel gauge needs a Runtz resistor on the hot side of the gauge.
Make suure the gauge cluster is well grounded and the sender unit on the fuel tank is well grounded.
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#86344 08/30/2003 1:09 AM | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 20 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 20 | I recently replaced the sending unit in my '53 and the instructions I had that came with the wiring harness said connect the wire from the sending unit to the F terminal on the gauge. I took that to mean the terminal on the (F)ull side of the gauge. That terminal had a bright red cardboard square attached to it also. Connected the other terminal to the ignition switch, made sure the sending unit was grounded to the cab and the gauge works fine. Good Luck-- Pete
Doug Peterson
53 Chevy Pickup
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