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Paging Steve H: You can laugh now. First fault.

But it isn't serious. Fuel gauge just stopped working. First the light started flickering=20 on/off/on/off, then the needle started swinging, then light came on and=20 the needle dropped like a brick, then the light went on, flickered on=20 and off, and the needle danced between full and empty. and it still=20 does.

2/3rds of a tank of fuel. 3 things, the wiring to the gauge is loose if it is seperate. there is a ground fault somewhere. The sender is shagged.

Luckily I just pull the false floor and unscrew the collar. a new one is =A366 from Eurocarparts but they don't have one. I know where there is one in a scrappy that may fit. The scrapper is an=20

89 G and 89 is when the two types swapped.

I'm going to pop the speaker cover in the morning and see if anything is=20 loose, then if that fails pull the sender and see what is going on.

--=20 Carl Robson Car PC Build starts again.

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I have patience.... this will be the first of many ;-)

*thud*

For a fuel level sender.

That's taking the piss.

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Yup, that is why I'm going the scrappy. The car in the scrappy has done half the miles that my car has, so the=20 sender should last as long again. Hopefully. scrappy will probably ask=20 =A320. He wanted =A350 for a brake servo, and I didn't fancy shelling out= =20 =A3400 for a new one.

--=20 Carl Robson Car PC Build starts again.

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Well, it gets worse. Eurocarparts don't have any, even at that price. Partco don't list them Andrew page "Don't carry them anymore because they had too many warranty=20 claims". Scrap yard that had one in didn't have the key to the boot, so I=20 couldn't get it out, would bust it open. Their answer was "Can't help=20 you then sorry" when I told them it was locked.

But after that, I don't reckon it is the sender anyway. If I bridge 2 of=20 the 3 tracks at the back of the gauge, it shows full. There is a screwed=20 down terminal clamp that basically bridges those tracks. I wonder if the=20 connectors or tracks below the bridge have worn out. Can't tell without=20 spending a weekend stripping out the entire dash to get at the cluster.=20 And if I do that I risk screwing up the heater control rod, the vacuum=20 operated Vent servo selector, and losing all the radio tunings into the=20 bargain.

--=20 Carl Robson Car PC Build starts again.

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