Solution to Fuel Gauge/Sender Problems

I have now installed this device.

Here is a discription of my setup.

"Home-Brewed" aluminum fuel tank. Just short of 18 gallons.

Tank is 10" deep ans is basicly the same shape as a stock tank.

The Fuel sending unit in the tank is also "Home-Brewed".

It is made from a "universal" gauge mounting unit which is adjustale up and down for depth.

The "sender" portion is a non linear (73 - 10 ohm) unit from a late model a body with the float arm length increased for the extra tank depth.

The dash gauge is a Autometer Sport Comp II short sweep (73 - 10 ohm) unit.

SO, nothing is even close to factory

With that said, This little device dose seem to work fairly well.

It has four correction points.

Low (empty)

Low Mid (somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 tank)

High Mid (somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 tank)

High (full)

I have both empty and full set pretty much dead on.

Half tank is now real close.

!/4 and 3/4 are "close" but not right on.

I set the readings with the tank on the floor with extension wires to ground and the sending wire to the front.

I added "WATER" 1 gallon at a time to the desired depth and then set each point with the Meter Match.

Again, to be fair, I do not know how well this would work with a stock tank and the "aftermarket" LINEAR sending units.

I would think that it would offer a pretty good correction.

Herb











i have now installed this