<VV> Gas gauge accuracy

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Tim,

There's an easy way and a slightly more difficult way.

The gas gauge is an ohmmeter, I can never remember which is the high resistance, F or E. You just need to get the right value resistor to put in series with the sender to pull?both readings down. That's the "easy" fix.

The correct solution (somewhat more difficult) is to pull the sender and adjust the float arm.

Ned








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From: shortle <shortle556 at earthlink.net>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 11:01 am
Subject: <VV> Gas gauge accuracy



My gas gauge on my '69 Convert. #2891 seems to work properly with the exception 
of when the tank is full the needle goes past the F by about 1/4 of an inch. 
Then when it's about 1/4 of an inch off E it will run out of gas. Though it is 
easy enough to rely on it, I would like it to be correct. It seems if I could 
rotate the gauge about 1/4 of an inch it would be correct but I know that is not 
possible. I know the tank and sender unit were replaced with NOS parts a while 
before I bought the car and I have made sure the sender grounding circuit as 
well as the gauge ground are excellent. Anyone? Thank you for any suggestions.
Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado
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