Re: SER1 Petrol Gauge Wiring

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Hi Ben,

The loose end of the sender wire *could* have been grounding somewhere I
suppose -- perhaps I dislodged it when I pulled the instrument cluster
out.  Just my luck that while I'm tending to iffy grounds that fail I lost
an iffy ground that hadn't failed in almost two years :-)

I can't help re the filler neck other than to suggest heat may not be a
good idea.  Minervas don't have such extravagances :-)

George E Sollish	Chief Engineer		Auto Gear Equipment
			Project Manager		The Payne Lake Project

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Ben Pooley wrote:

> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:42:27 -0300
> From: Ben Pooley <bpooley@xxxx.xxx>
> Reply-To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> Subject: Re: SER1 Petrol Gauge Wiring
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> At 10:13 AM 10/4/2004, George S. wrote:
> >- but the needle on
> >the petrol gauge, which never rises above 'E' as there's no sending unit
> >at the tank (the wire ends in space), now is pegged at 'F'.
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> George;
> I can't find the "notes to self" made when I had my fuel gauge and sender
> apart a few months ago,
> but, as I recall, the sender resistance is high at Full and low at
> Empty.  There is an internal ground
> in the gauge.  I suggest that your wire to the sender may have been
> grounded somewhere before, and
> that you now need a ground at the gauge's sender terminal to make it read
> empty.
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> While messing around at the fuel end of things, does anyone have a
> suggestion for freeing up the
> filter on the filler of my 80 in. without doing it great injury?   It has
> been stuck down for years.
> Ben P
> Lockeport,  Nova Scotia
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