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Re: HELP!!! 70 Body fuel gauge won't work!!!
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09/14/08 10:36 PM
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RapidRobert
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how about taking some thin metal parts tag wire & wiring the float/arm up to the upper stop & installing it this way. If it still reads "full" when you get it in there & hooked up then the only thing left is the liquid level in the tank isn't high enough for that particular sender or the tank isn't getting filled as much as you think & you could dunk the sending unit in a bucket of water outside the car with the ground & hot leads hooked up & see how it acts which would let you reach down & move the float thru its range of travel.
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Re: HELP!!! 70 Body fuel gauge won't work!!!
[Re: RapidRobert]
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09/14/08 11:10 PM
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The thing is that the sender needs to be in the lowest position to be able to get it back into the tank...... I had thought about putting it in bucket of fuel to see if it reads any different.......
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Re: HELP!!! 70 Body fuel gauge won't work!!!
[Re: RapidRobert]
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09/15/08 12:22 AM
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What stinks is that this sending unit is stainless......so it's a PIA to bend........I know that because I tried to bend it a little to make it lay on the very bottom of the tank........
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Re: HELP!!! 70 Body fuel gauge won't work!!!
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09/15/08 12:11 PM
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I just filled it up with fuel and went for a test drive.......The gauge goes to halfway and that's it.........this is even after I've bent the float arm down so it'll make the gauge read higher......
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Re: HELP!!! 70 Body fuel gauge won't work!!!
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09/15/08 04:09 PM
09/15/08 04:09 PM
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I'd submerge it in a large bucket of water & check it & my only remaining idea is, that the tank isn't getting all the way full. It's grounded, the float isn't waterlogged, the rheostat functions... Do you believe in Karma, curses, voodoo, or good old fashioned Murphys law any of that sort of thing.
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Re: HELP!!! 70 Body fuel gauge won't work!!!
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09/20/08 10:28 AM
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Here's the stock ground strap. It goes from the metal line coming out of the sender to the metal fuel line. It bridges the rubber hose. You can do the same thing with a piece of wire and two fuel line clamps.
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Re: HELP!!! 70 Body fuel gauge won't work!!!
[Re: dg_dodge]
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09/20/08 11:12 AM
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As far as metal lines from the sending unit, I have two - the 3/8 for the fuel and the 5/16 for the return. Does it matter which one is grounded? Thank you.
no. but the factory ones like what stumpy showed are for 5/16 lines so would have to carefully bend the end that is going on to your 3/8 line.They are brittle metal & works better to grab it with your thumbs & open it up a bit then slip the 3/8 line THROUGH it rather than trying to expand it further & putting it OVER the 3/8 line.
Last edited by RapidRobert; 09/20/08 11:39 AM.
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