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#98915 01/18/2007 1:29 AM | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 128 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 128 | I'm getting ready to buy dual saddle tanks for my '65 C-10 and figured I better find out what ohm range was in my gas gauge. Can anyone tell me if a stock 1965 Gas Gauge is a 0-30 ohms or 0-90 ohms gauge?
Thanks.
Lee (hoping for a 0-90) | | |
#98916 01/18/2007 1:57 AM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | LeeA,
The '65 isn't one I am familiar with (are any), but the catalog says '63--'66 uses a stock 30 ohm sending unit.
Stuart | | |
#98917 01/18/2007 2:11 AM | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 128 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 128 | That's where I'm confused. I've see catalogs that say what you said, and others that say the 0-30 is up to 1964 and the 0-90 is 1965 on up, and others that say 0-30 is up to 1964 and the 0-90 started in 1966 with nothing for 1965.
Thanks.
Lee | | |
#98918 01/18/2007 2:27 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,384 | 30 ohms-truck stayed 30 until 67. Brian | | |
#98919 01/18/2007 2:33 AM | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 128 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 128 | Thanks... any way to get a 90 ohms sending unit to work with a 30 ohms gauge?
Lee | | |
#98920 01/18/2007 3:19 AM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | LeeA, I don't think you can mix them and have them read properly...this has plagued man since the dawn of time.  Stuart | | |
#98921 01/19/2007 5:32 AM | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 55 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 55 | the only way to do it is duble the curint but to do that with out runing something dard ti do. | | |
#98923 02/14/2007 3:02 AM | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 9 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 9 | ACCORDING TO JIM RIZZO OF CLASSIC TRUCKS-MAY, 2000:
0-30 OHM PRE 58
0-90 OHM 58 AND LATER
NO WONDER US ELECTRONICALLY CHALLENGED GET CONFUSED! | | |
#98924 02/14/2007 3:25 AM | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 16 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 16 | i'm not confused, i'm just stupid! | | |
#98925 02/17/2007 3:06 AM | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1,624 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1,624 | There is an easy way to check if you wish. Disconnect the sensor wire from your gauge. Hook up a variable resistor (0-100 Ohms or greater). One wire to the sensor input on your gauge, the other to ground. Turn the key on to a position where the gas gauge would normally read. Turn the resistor until the gauge shows empty. Turn everything off, remove the hook up wires and read the resistor with an ohmmeter. You now know what your gas gauge wants.
Six volt guy living in a twelve volt world
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 11 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 11 | just a word on the ohms i have a 63 long bed and i got a new sending unit and it is 30 ohms so i think u may have the same in it niot sure but hey 2 years can niot make that diffrent | | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,384 | trucks did not change to 90 ohms until 67, 65 was the yr for cars | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 | To find out what you have:
1. Go to the bank and take out a loan.
2. Fill up the tank.
3. Pull the sender wire off at the tank and read the terminal
to ground resistance.
Voila! You have your answer! | | |
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