 Fuel gauge repair, Reads low |
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| lapuwali |
 Mar 11 2004, 09:08 PM
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Not another one!  Group: Benefactors Posts: 4,526 Joined: 1-March 04 From: San Mateo, CA Member No.: 1,743   |
Anyone taken their fuel gauge apart? I just filled my new-to-me '71, and it only reads 3/4. I know some Smiths gauges are dual magnet instead of the moving coil type, and these magnets can be adjusted. Same on the 914 fuel gauge?
If not, any other likely repair job on adjusting it? It seems to read low at both ends of the scale. I had it just about at R and the light wasn't coming on. |
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| Dave_Darling |
Mar 11 2004, 11:33 PM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,991 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California 
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I would first check it more thoroughly. Did you have the tank full?? If the fuel was not all the way up into the filler neck itself, you still had room in the tank. Most modern fuel pumps will do their auto-shutoff thing when the 914 tank is only 3/4 full. Sometimes less!
You can run a fuel line into a catch tank and jumper the fuel pump relay to pump the tank dry. See what the gauge reads at that point. The warning light is generally more reliable than the gauge, but you might want to check to see if it works at all either. --DD |
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