fuel gauge

[davey1302s]

right guys lets see who can work this one out


full tank of petrol gauge reads 1/2 full and will drop to empty as the car uses the petrol.

i have changed gauge and regulator and getting same result.

i have changed sender same result.

i have manually moved floats on sender to full posistion same result

if you touch both wires together that should go on sender nothing happens

if you swap wires over on sender gauge reads full on one sender and nothing on the other sender

thats 2 gauges and 2 regulators and 2 senders all with same results more or less,


any one any ideas then

[KantDriveFast]

You didn't specify what year/model vehicle this is, or if these are factory parts, aftermarket, VDO, or? So I'll assume these are stock parts? Since fuel senders work on a given amount of Ohms to give/recieve signal from sender to gauge, it sounds like the parts you are using are incompatible?

[whutdidyousay]

I'll assume the you have a 1302 like your name says,I'll also assume that it's a sender with a rod and a float...... did you bend it to calibrate it?..... empty the tank, then add 1 gallon and bend the rod until the guage reads just at the beginning of reserve.... will take a few tries, but you are describing exactly what my car did....... the float couldn't go up far enough..... OR.... is the sender in the wrong position?
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[davey1302s]

yeaits a 1302s, i have never tried bending the float as i diodnt think i would need to, maybe worth a try though its a VDo sender i have

[whutdidyousay]

yup!..... bend the rod
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I'm tryin to build a dream one piece at a time, just bear with me.