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| posted on June 13th, 2012 at 03:49 PM |
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Will This Fuel Gauge Work?
Will this gauge
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=349/cate...
work with this sender?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Fuel-Tank-Sender-VW-Beetle-1968-1977-Fuel-Guage-Se...
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| posted on June 13th, 2012 at 04:01 PM |
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Maybe if you know the resistance of the VW sender..
but I did read the resistance in Ohms of a VW fuel sender recently..
I think it was 30 Ohms??
You would need to find out so that the gauge You order would work correctly.
Someone on here should be able to tell You..
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| posted on June 13th, 2012 at 05:36 PM |
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Cheers
And these on a 71 bug?
Speedo
http://www.shopdrift.com/Products/D1-SPE338-DIG/Speedometer-DigitalSeries338-...
Oil temp
http://www.shopdrift.com/Products/D1-OLT-DIG/OilTemperatureGauge-DigitalSerie...
Tacho
http://www.shopdrift.com/Products/D1-TAC338-DIG/Tachometer-DigitalSeries338-B...
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| posted on June 13th, 2012 at 06:27 PM |
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Bug senders are 70ohm empty and 10ohm full so you would set it for the "Ford10" on that list.
That's the wrong sender though, you want the Bayonette fitting one for 71 onwards superbug not the screw in type for standard beetles.
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| posted on June 13th, 2012 at 06:43 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Joel
Bug senders are 70ohm empty and 10ohm full so you would set it for the "Ford10" on that list.
That's the wrong sender though, you want the Bayonette fitting one for 71 onwards superbug not the screw in type for standard beetles.
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Thanks. Any of these?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=1971+beetle+...
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| posted on June 13th, 2012 at 07:13 PM |
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Nope, you need a 1302 Super Beetle one
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=super+beetle+fuel+sender&_sacat=0&...
They have the twist in bayonette fitting not screw in and have 2 floats on them
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Heres one in Aus
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VW-Beetle-Stock-Fuel-Tank-sender-T1-SUPER-BUG-98-2...
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| posted on June 14th, 2012 at 08:26 AM |
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If you take the gauge and sender to St George Instruments at Carlton [ask for Barry], he will set it up correctly.......and it work perfectly.
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!
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| posted on June 14th, 2012 at 09:26 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by HappyDaze
If you take the gauge and sender to St George Instruments at Carlton [ask for Barry], he will set it up correctly.......and it work perfectly.
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Appreciate the advice!
Can anyone comment on the other gauges I mentioned? I assume they will be compatible...
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| posted on June 14th, 2012 at 09:49 AM |
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The speedo will need a speed sensor of some description and you will need to fit the sender for the oil temp gauge somewhere.
Tacho will be fine but you will probably need to run a rectifier diode to clean the signal up abit, they're made for modern ECU generated tach
signals so old VW points tend to make them abit jumpy.
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