 911 fuel/oil level gauge, Anybody do anything with the oil level gauge? |
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| East coaster |
 May 5 2006, 03:05 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1,668 Joined: 28-March 03 From: Brigantine, NJ Member No.: 487 Region Association: None 
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For those of you running a 911 dash and using a 911 fuel gauge, has anyone done anything with the oil level side of the gauge??? I kinda hate the idea of a needle sitting in the red all the time due to a defunct gauge......I know.....I know.....just ignore it.
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| jasons |
May 5 2006, 03:23 PM
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Jackstand Extraordinaire Group: Members Posts: 2,002 Joined: 19-August 04 From: Scottsdale, AZ Member No.: 2,573 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(East coaster @ May 5 2006, 02:05 PM)  For those of you running a 911 dash and using a 911 fuel gauge, has anyone done anything with the oil level side of the gauge??? I kinda hate the idea of a needle sitting in the red all the time due to a defunct gauge......I know.....I know.....just ignore it. You could stick a resistor and 12v on it and it would at least go up to some kind of reading. That way it wouldn't look so useless. |
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| markb |
May 5 2006, 03:49 PM
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914less :( Group: Members Posts: 5,449 Joined: 22-January 03 From: Nipomo, CA Member No.: 180 Region Association: Central California
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Couldn't you use the same sender as used in a 911? I know nothing about either, so my ignorance may be showing here.
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| ewdysar |
May 5 2006, 04:35 PM
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What happens here, stays here. Group: Members Posts: 558 Joined: 29-October 04 From: Altadena, CA Member No.: 3,030 |
North Hollywood speedo replaced my oil level gauge with a voltmeter. Looks stock, and I can see when the radiator fans kick on...
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| Gary |
May 5 2006, 04:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 744 Joined: 12-January 03 From: Mount Airy, MD Member No.: 134 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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QUOTE(markb @ May 5 2006, 02:49 PM) Couldn't you use the same sender as used in a 911? I know nothing about either, so my ignorance may be showing here. Unfortunately, no sender provision in 914-6 tank... |
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| bondo |
May 5 2006, 04:50 PM
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Practicing my perpendicular parking Group: Members Posts: 4,277 Joined: 19-April 03 From: Los Osos, CA Member No.: 587 Region Association: Central California |
I plan to wire mine up to the sender for the low oil light that's in the oil pan of the LT1. I'll set it up so it will show full or empty. Not as good as a real level indicator, but better than nothing. Such a sender may be hackable into a type IV or a /6 tank, but I don't know for sure. I'm guessing it will make the needle bounce around on turns, but oh well. The computer in the instrument cluster of the Firebird had some sort of crazy algorythm that would look at the sender output and if it saw enough "low oil" signals over a period of time, it would then turn on the light and leave it on until it saw less than another amount of "low oil" signals. A lot of effort just to make sure the light doesn't flicker.
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