Do any of you run a fuel gauge in your barn door?

rikki james · Samba Member Joined: September 23, 2000 Posts: 128

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

Many thanx Wink

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J.R.Herity · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject:

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

Drew Ogden · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:59 pm Post subject:

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Lowdown Dirty Rat · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:21 am Post subject:

The obvious choice

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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 Laughing

UZI · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:39 pm Post subject:

i use a paint stick. it's actually somewhat accurate most of the time.
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Concept1 · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:59 pm Post subject:

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. Laughing

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.
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Trevor P · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:04 pm Post subject:

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BulletBus · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:45 am Post subject:

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.
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twinwindows · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:57 am Post subject:

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.
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Scotty · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:35 am Post subject:

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

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barndoormambo · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:58 am Post subject:

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

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Enfo · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:02 pm Post subject:

tstracy39 · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:02 pm Post subject:

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.
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tstracy39 · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:04 pm Post subject:

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RockStock · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:57 am Post subject:

1) Dehne

RockStock · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:37 am Post subject:

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.

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twinwindows · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:34 am Post subject:

I`d like to see the instructions on installing the Beck gauge.
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Lowdown Dirty Rat · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:36 pm Post subject:

Chris where do you find this shit!
Your like a one man thesauBus Very Happy


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