FUEL GUAGE

[LARRY RAY]

Hello everyone.
    I thought of something that happens on my 78 Clipper that hopefully someone can help me with. I have a fifty gallon L shaped fuel tank. When it is full the guage shows 3/4. When guage shows 1/8th I can only put in 30 gal. Maybe I should get used to it, yet I would like to know what is still there with a little more accuracy. When I bought her, was doing some cleaning up and found some gadget in the fuel line along the frame that had wires going to the dash. I suppose it was some kind of fuel monitor system, yet it was not all intact so i removed it to just clean up some clutter. The prvious owner had no clue about it, It was not there when he purchased it either. Cannot locate the original owner yet still looking. Anyone have a clue to this thing or same problems with fuel guage. Thanks.[/img]

[AndyIlles]

Your sender could be bad... guage could be bad.... could have bad/dirty sender connections, or the wrong sender.  As to the inline "gadget"... sure it's not an electric pump?  No idea what else it could be, unless maybe a flow meter, which is unlikely cuz they cost an arm and a leg, plus, you'd have a dash guage for that.

PS... I picked up a "new" instrument cluster at an amazing Daytona  Beach junkard to get a speedometer that works (I'm no longer doing 80 parked at Safeway :lol:) so I have the cluster with all the other stuff, if anybody needs it or a guage.

Andy

[junebob]

:cry:  Welcome to the Clipper world of innacurate fuel gauges. To date in my time in the club I have never ran across an owner that has claimed his was accurrate.  :shock: And that includes several owners that have had their rig since it was new. That is the first thing to go , from what I,m told it happens so early in the rigs life that the owners can't even remember when the reading went bad. The second thing to crap out early is the vaccum controlled air selector valve. We are the second owners of our rig. If memory serves correctly I believe We were told that went out at 17000 miles.  :? GO FIGURE. If there is any guigance to be had , I think you would find it WAY BACK :x in the Clipper Back issues. Good luck  Bob Chaney slobnj@pacifier.com

[LARRY RAY]

YOU KNOW WHAT? IF I HAD ONLY THOUGHT OBOUT IT FOR A MOMENT I KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS AND IT JUST DIDN'T SOAK IN.  (DUMMY). MINE IS A FIFTY GALLON (L) SHAPED TANK. TO MAKE IT WORK THEY PUT THE ORIGINAL SENDING UNIT IN NA DIT WAS NEVER MEAN'T TO WORK WITH IT WITH ANY ACCURACY. THIS ALL CAME TO MIND WHEN I REMEBERED MY BOAT HAS THE SAME SET UP. THINKS ABOUT IT. THE TOP IS SMALL AND THE BOTTOM IS LARGER. MAKES SINCE  NOW HUH? NEXT TIME I HAVE APROBLEM I WILL THINK IT THROUGH BEFORE MAKING AN IDIOT  OF MYSELF.
LARRY

[AndyIlles]

Bob....

My gas guage has been dead-accurate (so far).  It did get erratic right after I got the rig, but cleaning the sender terminals did the trick.,

Andy

[aliendude]

I just went thru all this........... I can tell you that the push on connectors
for the sender rheostat get hardened and the wires brittle for the
connector......the push on connector corrodes inside.....at the wire
connection.....

You got to have a fresh gound connetion, clean splices taped up to keep out
water.

The actual guage is not telling you how many gallons of gas you have....
or what size tank it makes no difference.  No matter what size tank you have if the suction fuel
pick up is right on the bottom of the tank, then you have
what the guage says of a level of fuel in the tank....from empty.