At 08:31 PM 7/30/2002, ren ren wrote: >When my fuel guage gets low it flexuates. Someone said that is because the >strips that measure get corrosion or worn and suggested that a fuel additive >might assist with lessening the corrosion. Any suggestions? Live with it until you can take it out and look. No additive is going to remove existing corrosion (which is not that likely anyway). Wear on the slider is quite likely the problem -- if the wire wears through it won't be intermittent. I've never seen the Vanagon sender, but I've rebuilt a couple of Toyota ones (great quality control, they each failed at 95,000 miles) where the slider wore through, brazing on a reinforcement. I'm good at that sort of thing -- you may not be. But the Toyota ones were $80-90 and it certainly was worth the effort to me. (They were also a lot easier to get to than the Vgon one -- lift the back seat and they were staring you in the face. Oh well. david
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