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Date:         Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:47:43 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: "reserve" fuel capacity
Comments: To: Jeanne Maly <traveller57@CABLEONE.NET>
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At 02:02 4/19/2000, Jeanne Maly wrote: >David, > >Do you mean that if the gauge is correctly adjusted, empty should really mean >empty? That doesn't seem to be anybody's experience.

No -- if you have access to the magic VW adjustable resistor (VW 1301) which is calibrated in some magic unit that is *not* ohms , at a dial setting of 50 on the VW1301 the needle should rest at the top of the red, which they consider "empty;" with a setting of 320 it should rest at the bottom of the top black mark. +/- 1 needle width in each case.

I stupidly thought the units were ohms, and spent 5 minutes getting my gauge (it has two mechanical adjustments) into a state that took several hours to get back out of.

How all this relates to actual fuel level I don't know. Mine goes above the top mark when actually full, and below the bottom one before it runs out.

david David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation"


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