TheSamba.com :: View topic - Do any of you run a fuel gauge in your barn door?

Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:23 pm

.... if so please show me what you got.

Many thanx ;-)

Rikki

Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:40 pm

have you seen these early bus gas tank measuring sticks on the classfied
section split bus??
Rick

Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:59 pm

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Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:21 am

The obvious choice

Though I know you are aware of these rikki.

You could edit a beetle one. Theres a few in the classifieds. There only around 2 grand :lol:

Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:39 pm

i use a paint stick. it's actually somewhat accurate most of the time.

Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:59 pm

I use the notepad and pen method.

As Trevor can attest to, it's deadly accurate. Except when you forget to write down your fill ups. :lol: I think we ran out of gas twice on the way to Cali and back. Jumped out and switched it over to reserve.

I think we were averaging 340-350km per tank, without using the reserve. Keeping in mind the speedo is out, because of the tire size.

Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:04 pm

Concept1 wrote: I think we ran out of gas twice on the way to Cali and back.
That gas can was the smartest purchase we made on that trip...besides the "I Love Beaver" T-shirts of course. :lol:

Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:27 am

Lowdown Dirty Rat wrote: The obvious choice

Though I know you are aware of these rikki.

You could edit a beetle one. Theres a few in the classifieds. There only around 2 grand :lol:

If only.... have you seen how much these are when they actually come up for sale!!!! :shock:

Thanx anyway my-old-shun ;-)

Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:45 am

Someone needs to repop the Dehn ones. I've seen the digital gages, which are pretty nice, but nothing else. Can a later one be adapted? I would be hessitant to cut a hole in my tank unless I knew it would work.

Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:57 am

I already talked to the king of the repro Dehn gas gauges. He and I agree that there would not be enough sold to even cover the tooling to make them. I was going to send him the very same one in the picture above as a sample.

Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:35 am

Bubba's bus had a fuel gauge in it when it was first up for sale:

Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:58 am

..Mark Spicer will make you a folding dip-stick ( i'm sure) if you ask him, nicely, Rikki :D 8)

Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:02 pm

Scotty wrote: Bubba's bus had a fuel gauge in it when it was first up for sale:

Thats fantastic, just the sort of 'previous owner' bodges I like. :D

Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:02 pm

VDO and Motometer brown face 52mm fuel gauges would be period correct, and the gauges most likely to have been installed in an early barndoor when they were new. VDO "striped' gauges unofficially came out in late 1954, so these would be correct for late barndoors, although there probably weren't many of these gauges around by mid-1955 and the vast majority of them went int Ovals. I had one that was stamped 6/1954. I'm in the process of turning it into an oil temp gauge.

Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:04 pm

twinwindows wrote: I already talked to the king of the repro Dehn gas gauges. He and I agree that there would not be enough sold to even cover the tooling to make them. I was going to send him the very same one in the picture above as a sample.
Tell me about it. Even if everyone who has a roadworthy barndoor wanted a gauge, that'd be like what... 300 units total?

Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:06 pm

Lowdown Dirty Rat wrote: The obvious choice

Though I know you are aware of these rikki.

You could edit a beetle one. Theres a few in the classifieds. There only around 2 grand :lol:

does anyone have the length of the cable?

and a picture from the backside?

Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:57 am

1) Dehne
oval56 wrote: and a picture from the backside?

2) Motometer

micro9301 wrote: Email Mark Merz. I could be wrong, but I think his Swedish 54 dlx has a dealer installed fuel gauge, and I think it is even documented in the paperwork.

3) Beck

Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:37 am

Another Motometer? Different location choice - think I prefer top left. From the ex Anchovy dlx. Not sure if it stayed in the bus post resto.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:34 am

I`d like to see the instructions on installing the Beck gauge.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:36 pm

Chris where do you find this shit!
Your like a one man thesauBus :D