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A.k.a.: Greg Hanley
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| posted on July 13th, 2014 at 12:01 PM |
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Correct Fuel Sender for 1967 beetle with VDO Cockpit gauge
Hi guys
I have a problem with my fuel sender and after some diagnositic mucking around, it appears that the sender is not working correctly even though it is
only about 12 months old.
The faulty unit is a "tube style" sender that I purchased from Classic Vee Dub about 12 month ago as the it was the same type that it was
replacing.
To cut a long story short, I've tested it with an OHM meter and it reads inconsistently. (10 ohms full, 73 ohms empty). On the bench, I could get it
to work 99% of the time but when I installed it with the OHM meter attached, it kept reading empty (73 ohms). I had a feeling that the float was not
"floating" so pulled off the tube and installed the bare skeleton and the float didn't "float"!
Any, my question is, what is the correct sender unit, the "arm and float" or the tube type?
And I assume that the float arm (if the correct type is the "arm float") points to the rear of the car?
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Greg
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| posted on July 14th, 2014 at 08:54 AM |
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Hi Greg
I used a VDO gauge from CIP, its VW specific http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=VDO%2D301%2D020
I think the normal VDO gauges dont work properly with VW senders.
I fitted a VDO tube type sender to my bug with the above gauge and it works fine
Steve
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| posted on July 14th, 2014 at 09:22 AM |
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Thanks mate
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| posted on July 14th, 2014 at 10:10 AM |
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Get the part number from the gauge and go the vdo site and find the correct sender.
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| posted on July 14th, 2014 at 03:51 PM |
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Thanks mate
I have just order the genuine VDO Sender for the gauge and a new flange kit 
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