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#96347 07/15/2006 2:01 PM | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 | My fuel guage stays in the same spot all the time. empty.. It moves when I put the igniton on from dead empty to a hair past empty I feel its the sender unit any ideas. How many gallons is my gas tank. 1954 1/2 ton.. thanks | | |
#96348 07/15/2006 2:39 PM | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 23 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2005 Posts: 23 | petmil - you can find a lot of info on how to check to see if it is your gauge or your sender by using the search program above. a lot of good info in their about gas gauges and their problems etc. and how to solve them. not for sure on capacity of tank but i think it is between 12 and 15 gallons. good luck.
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#96349 07/16/2006 3:39 PM | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 | I tried to find that info to no avail. I was under the truck today. I found a fuel filter and a brass looking thing bigger then a fuel filter but the same shape with wires coming out of it. all attached to the fuel line. Whats the brass thing a new type of fuel sender ????? | | |
#96350 07/16/2006 4:22 PM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 Riding in the Passing Lane | | Riding in the Passing Lane Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 | Remove the wire from the sender. Turn on the ign. Notice the gauge reading. Ground the wire & look at the gauge. It should read full one way & empty the other way. I forgot which on that model. It sounds like you have an electric fuel pump under the truck. Follow the wire going to it & see if it hooks to a switch or to the ign switch. It may be working all the time or just for priming.
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#96351 07/16/2006 4:23 PM | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | plenty of post on this topic..........do the search deal,, here is one link click here do you have a pix of the object you are speaking of
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. | | |
#96352 07/16/2006 4:47 PM | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 | Ok where is the sender wire located I'm new at this but i adapt quicky!!!! | | |
#96353 07/16/2006 5:24 PM | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | one end will be on the sending unit(top of tank) and it then probably goes under the dash check out this diagram click here
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. | | |
#96354 07/16/2006 5:44 PM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | Joker,
What a great wiring diagram. Very clear and concise. I wonder why it indicates it is for '47-'53 AD trucks, buts lists the tailight lamps as being #1157.
I have been jabbering on another thread about lamps/bulbs, and I recognize this as a 12 volt unit.
Weren't all the AD trucks 6 volt until 1955. Maybe it was a typo on the authors part.
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#96355 07/16/2006 5:52 PM | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | dont have the answer,, may have to go to the org. post to find out.........I may look, still waiting for the race to start........
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. | | |
#96356 07/16/2006 6:38 PM | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | Stu,,,,,,,,,here is the org post from GMC248 , looks like chief is the author...... look here and it appears to be 12 volts,, there is a link for the 6 volt in the response also.. later
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. | | |
#96357 07/16/2006 7:23 PM | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 | Wow those are great diagrams would my 1954 chevy have fuses???? I'm going under the dash shortly | | |
#96358 07/16/2006 8:54 PM | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 |
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. | | |
#96359 07/16/2006 8:59 PM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | Petmil,
I did a search and found this tidbit!
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Originally posted by red58:
Virginia - the AD's didn't have a standard fuse block, hafta make do - the originals just used inline fuses for the add-on accessories -
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That's not quite accurate.
On '47 AD's they had a complete fuse panel under the hood with six or eight fuses. By '51 they were using just two fuses under a cover near the regulator. Anything that didn't go through those two used an accessory inline fuse.
This was posted some time ago by Oldsub. I hope it's alright to resurrect it.
Stuart | | |
#96360 07/17/2006 11:30 AM | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 262 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 262 | Petmil,
I think the '54 fuel tank is the same as my '49.. 17 gallons. Catalog says same tank in '47-'E55.
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#96361 07/18/2006 8:18 PM | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 | Ok back to my fuel gauge. i did what wrench bender said, took off sender wire it went to full grounded the same wire it went to empty does that mean the sender is ok or broken if it's ok what next here. thanks | | |
#96362 07/18/2006 9:14 PM | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Your fuel gauge is good.
Make sure the wire from your gauge to the sender is good - run a new wire, if you are not sure.
Try to run a ground wire from the chassis to one of the screws that holds the sender to your gas tank. If that does not solve the problem, your sender is most likely the problem. | | |
#96363 07/22/2006 3:48 AM | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 327 | Well I think we have solved my fuel giage problem the float had [censored] in it. I couldn't get a new one but I will, so i soldered the small hole that seem to work. The guage jumps around but at least its not stuck on empty. Thanks for all your help I learned a lot here!! Peter My pictures below.. http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=11678687&uid=5951166&members=1 | | |
#96364 07/22/2006 7:07 AM | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 | BTW,Pete-the thing near the fuel filter is an electric fuel pump. Good thing to have. If it's wired in through the ignition switch and works,it'll prime your fuel system when you run out of gas or when you don't drive the ruck for an extended time. Or,you could wire it through a toggle switch and only use it for emergencies.
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