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Date:         Sun, 30 Sep 2001 21:47:00 -0400
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum@BANGORNEWS.INFI.NET>
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From:         Mike Collum <collum@BANGORNEWS.INFI.NET>
Subject:      Made my fuel gauge work
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The fuel gauge on my '84 wasserboxer (for a number of years) would only go to about 3/4 when I filled the tank.  In the last couple
of years it would only go to slightly above 1/2.  It finally quit giving any reading at all, and because the temp gauge worked, I
figured it must be a "Sender" problem.


Well .... I removed the gauge cluster from the dash and loosened the nuts that hold the fuel gauge's terminals to the "Ribbon"
circuit, sprayed in some WD-40 and carefully re-tightened the nuts.  The gauge not only works again ... it works correctly!


A little corrosion (?) goes a long way (but no corrosion was visible).


Mike
'84 GL.
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