Geezer,
I assume you have the original Jeager gauge still installed.
On the back of the gauge the two terminals should be labelled B and T.
The green with black goes to the T-terminal (the Full side).
Originally only a green wire goes to the B-terminal (the empty-side).
This green wire runs through the fuse unit (terminal A4).
On the back of my fuel-gauge I don't have sliders, but only one
adjusment
screw. I had my gauge overhauled, after which the reading came out
wrong.
This is being fixed at the moment. As I understood, you can regulate the
sensitivity of the fuel gauge for the amount of Ohms you receive from
the
petrol-tank unit (and there are different types of fuel tank units).
I suggest you try to remove the black wire anyway. The loose terminals
are not normal as you already guessed. Some overhauling would save your
fuel gauge for the future!
Regards,
Alex van Zanten
'58 TR3a
Coday Family wrote:
> When I took off the gauges and cleaned them, I appear to have mixed
> up the adjustment of the fuel gauge. I was driving around this week
> enjoying having a speedometer (fixed with a new cable even though the
> old cable was spinning) and thinking I must be getting great gas
> mileage, the gas gauge kept reading 5/8 of a tank, then 1/2. Then I
> ran to a sputtering stop as the 1/2 tank reading turned out to be
> empty.
>
> Have taken the gauge off again, tried adjusting and it now reads
> empty all the time. So maybe this is progress?
>
> Questions: I have a green wire with black stripe on one terminal
> (toward the full side of gauge) and a green wire and black wire on
> the other terminal (toward empty side). There is 12+ volts on the
> green wire, no voltage on the other wires. The terminals themselves
> seem to be a bit loose to the gauge, there are also two sliding
> adjustments which I assume control sensitivity to empty and full.
>
> Is this wired correctly? Am I getting the empty reading because of
> the sliding adjustments?
>
> Gas tank is full right now.
>
> Other items of passing interest, the motor was running pretty rough,
> sputtering on acceleration from low rpm. I was planning to take a
> look at the carbs, but when I refilled the tank, it runs great. Must
> have had some crud at the bottom of the tank. I think I was lucky to
> run it through the motor without apparent problems.
>
> Last: I need a couple of 2 BA wingnuts for the instrument cluster,
> does anyone have a couple to spare?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geezer
>
> TS52320L
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