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don.ville Samba YardMan
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject: SIEMENS/VDO fuel gauge sender output resistance |
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Last year I bought a brand new Brazilian gas gauge sender. On the end of the box the sticker has written "224005008R KOMBI (67...81)". A sticker over that has the part number "271 919 051 B"
The other day I got a new to me gauge of the bus. My tank was empty and when I connected the gauge it showed less that 1/4 tank,so I was happy, then I filled up and it still read the same.
I checked the sender to ground when it was almost empty and it was 60ohms
With the full tank it reads 500 ohms.
This seems opposite of what the gauge expects ( grounded or 0 Ohms when full and high impedance when empty)
Can anyone shed some light on this? _________________
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mintonman Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Is the guage a stock guage or an aftermarket VDO _________________ Hoockd on fonicks werkt for mee?
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don.ville Samba YardMan
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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stock gauge I got from the classifieds _________________
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mintonman Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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I asked because an aftermarket guage will not work with a stock sender and vice versa, so if it's a origanal/stock guage and an original/stock sender they SHOULD work together, but them brizilians did some crazy shit over there, so you may need an aftermaket guage I think I still have my chart from VDO as to what ohms are needed for the aftermaket guage, if I do I'll let you know. _________________ Hoockd on fonicks werkt for mee?
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Culito 11010101
Joined: December 07, 2006 Posts: 5866 Location: Columbia Missourah
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Just to make sure, you have your sender grounded, right?
Remember that the gauge gets 12v in, then out through the sender to ground. _________________ Copyright CJ Industries, Inc.
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:48 am Post subject: |
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Don, we can expect the new sender to be good, it's new.
To test the gauge, hook twelve volts to it. Does the needle go to full?
If not the gauge is bad.
I have a variable power supply you can use, it's a good way to test the full range of the gauge.
I can bring it on the camping gtg. Just let me know.
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don.ville Samba YardMan
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:57 am Post subject: |
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The gauge is working as expected: high impedance to ground =tank empty ; low impedance or direct ground on "G" terminal shows full tank.
It is the sender that is acting off normal from what I expected.
It show low impedance when empty and higher when I fill the tank.
I got it brand new locally, but am curious about the application, maybe newer gauges work differently (or Brazillian ones)?
I thought I was not going to have to take the fuel tank out again, but sadly this may not be so. _________________
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dstefun Samba Member
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:21 am Post subject: Re: SIEMENS/VDO fuel gauge sender output resistance |
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don.ville wrote: |
A sticker over that has the part number "271 919 051 B" |
That's the right part number for a split bus sender but something funky is going on. It does need to be zero ohms or close to it when full. Wrong sender in the box? |
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don.ville Samba YardMan
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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"224005008R KOMBI (67...81)". |
this could be 224 005 008 R ?
What about the original part number on the box? Do these senders really work from 67 to 81? _________________
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SCZ9-1-1 Samba Member
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Did you take the float retaining pin out of the sending unit before you installed it? It is a small pin that's taped over that holds the float from bouncing around while shipping. |
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dstefun Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:38 am Post subject: |
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don.ville wrote: |
Do these senders really work from 67 to 81? |
No, later busses use different senders. The cutoffs are 68-Jan 73, Jan-73 thru 79 and 80-87. |
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don.ville Samba YardMan
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:39 am Post subject: |
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Yes, the pin is out. The impedance changed when I filled the tank, just the wrong way.
Those cutoff dates certainly don't match what the sticker says!
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don.ville Samba YardMan
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Sender has stopped working now.
Reads open circuit.
After several years of my gas gauge needle flicking back and forth and reading pretty much whatever it wanted, the sender finally took a dump.
I remember when I was troubleshooting it back then, the impedance would change (jump around) with the engine RPM changing. _________________
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dstefun Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:14 am Post subject: |
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New VDO Brazilian senders are still available but stay away from the cheaper unmarked Euromax ones. CIP1 has the lowest price for the VDO @ $50 - WW and BugHaus want $65 and WW doesn't say whether theirs is VDO or not.
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=VWC-211-919-051
The bouncing around problem sounds like a poor ground from the gauge to the dash. Your best bet there is to run a separate ground wire directly to the stud on the back of the gauge. But it could also be a funky gauge or poor ground at the sender end too.
The ground terminal in the lower center is marked with a ground icon on my '62 gauge - the stud is short but there is room for a ring terminal and nut. Just run a wire from there to a good body ground.
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don.ville Samba YardMan
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don.ville Samba YardMan
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:26 am Post subject: |
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dstefun wrote: |
The bouncing around problem sounds like a poor ground from the gauge to the dash. Your best bet there is to run a separate ground wire directly to the stud on the back of the gauge. But it could also be a funky gauge or poor ground at the sender end too.
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Thanks. I ran a separate ground to the gauge.
During troubleshooting in 2009, I used my thick home extension cord. I ran current from the tank sender (with a clean scraped ground) through the extension cord outside the bus, to the gauge (while out of the dash) with a nice new ground wire, and it was still acting erratic. _________________
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dstefun Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:39 am Post subject: |
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Then it's probably a funky gauge. Easy enough to change but 12V gauges aren't too easy to find these days. You can use a 6V gauge if you add a resister or other type of voltage drop inline to the power lead. Otherwise the 6V gauge will eventually cook itself to death on 12V and even 6V gauges are getting rare to find in decent shape, as is noted by the prices in the ads. |
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