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Re: Fuel tank sending unit.

To: "Spitfire List" <spitfires@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: Fuel tank sending unit.
From: "Luke Lewis" <lukage@home.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:37:48 -0400
It was mounted 180 degrees out from correct and the float was snapped into
the arm backwards.  This made it read the opposite way.

Luke


> Pray tell, how do you tell that it is upside down?  My sender unit arm
> points off to the right of the car...
>
> John
> '75 Spit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spitfires@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-spitfires@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Luke Lewis
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 3:14 PM
> To: Spitfire List
> Subject: Re: Fuel tank sending unit.
>
>
>
> > >Does anyone know the Ohm Range for a Fuel Tank sending unit in a 1963
> Spit
> > >Mk1?
> > >
> > >What resistance is Empty? Full?
> > >
> >
> >   I measure my sender before it was installed.  The value ranges from
> >   20 - 260 ohms, but I didn't note down which value is for full and
> >   empty.  However since the new sender was put into my car it does
> >   not register full only about 7/8 after a fill up.
>
> Here's an interesting story about sending units... When my car was still
in
> pieces in my barn, but I'd finally gotten it to run, I put gas into it...
> about ten bucks' worth, which half fills it here in Canada.
> So I was running it around the farm when I was bored (The bonnet and
> everything else ahead of the rad were still off the car at this point
:-) )
> an dI noticed that the gas gauge kept reading HIGHER.
> Disassembly proved that the sending unit had been installed UPSIDE DOWN!
>
> Has anyone else ever seen this?  Could it possibly have been this way
since
> the car was new?  (It had been stored since 1986 when I got it)  The lock
> ring was pristine...
>
> Luke
> '71 MkIV
>


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