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aircooledmark
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 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:32 am Post subject: 65 Beetle, converted to RHD, electric fuel gauge questions |
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I hav ea '65 Beetle which I have converted to RHD, and have the Australian electric fuel gauge... I'd like to use this electric fuel gauge on the car - but I am uncertain on the sending unit and wiring.
Will I be good to go with an electric fuel sender for a 68+ Beetle, such as this one?
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=VWC%2D113%2D919%2D049%2DD
Is there anything else needed, or does the sender just connect directly to the gauge? Do I need a resister, or is it built into the fuel gauge?
As for wiring - it looks like 12V+ switched from the fuse panel to the gauge, and 12V+ to the sender. Is that it?
Guess the worst case scenario is I just TRY and see if it works! |
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glutamodo 
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Pre-68 fuel gauges are not the same. I don't know what type of gauge you have from Australia - post a picture? I'm pretty sure that it's going to be a balance-coil style gauge though. Not the thermal style for a 68/later. The sending units are not compatible. I'm thinking yours used either a special sending unit, or the Bus/Ghia type. You can read up on the two styles on this web page:
http://www.nls.net/mp/volks/htm/fuel_ga.htm
And you can read about my own experience - where I took a 60's electric guage, one that required a special sending unit which I did not have, which wasn't in the greatest condition anyway, so I gutted it and put in the parts from a ghia or type 3 gauge, and used it with a ghia sending unit. I talked about that in this posting:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=231562& |
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KantDriveFast
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there anything else needed, or does the sender just connect directly to the gauge? Do I need a resister, or is it built into the fuel gauge? |
There is a small resistor looking part (called a vibrator?), it goes inline between the sender and gauge if I recall correctly. Mounts to the cowl panel, just above the speedo. |
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aircooledmark
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Thanks for the help. I'll post up a few photos later this evening... That might help us dig a little deeper...
I guess the most obvious answer is I should have gotten an Australian sending unit with the fuel gauge! |
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glutamodo
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| FYI - You'd only need a vibrator - (or that funky zener diode voltage stablizer, something seldom seen in the US but sometimes was installed in other countries on cars with factory option radios) for a thermal style gauge. A balance coil type gauge does not use one. |
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aircooledmark
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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Not home yet, so I cant take a picture of mine but... If I remember correctly, its the same as the one on the right in this photo:
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glutamodo
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, balance coil type of gauge. That won't use the 68/later type of tank unit. |
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aircooledmark
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Ok... sorry for the delay! Here's the actual photos of mine. I hadn't noticed before... But it's a 6 volt gauge too...
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