*unusual?* fuel gauge/sender failure

Sender is bad.

"Grape Daddy naxs.com>" [*unusual?* fuel gauge/sender failure]

Grape Daddy

Sounds like the sender. Take the sender wire off the gauge and connect an Ohmmeter from chassis to the wire. (Best to use an old fashioned analog meter.) See if the reading gets erratic at 1/4 Full.

See the Fuel Gauge article on my web site.

Speedy Jim

It's corrosion on the sender wire. Once you get the sender out this is uaually easy to fix. Just draw the wire between a finger and a fingernail to scrape the corrosion off the wire so that you get good contact everywhere.

Be careful, as this wire is soft and easily stretched.

----------------------------------------------- Jim Adney snipped-for-privacy@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711 USA

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Sounds like the gauge is so old, that it has a worn area where it registers between 1/4 and 1/2 tank. You might want to get a new sender.

Try: aircooled.net/

v Thanks all. new VDO sender arrived in mail today, but of course I'm in no great rush to install it. It looks a little like a grenade with a sticker which says, "Achtunug! Remove z safety pin first"

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