Hi all, back to an old theme I'm afraid. When I asked about the 6v Fuel gauge a few weeks ago - everyone told me that you didn't need to convert the gauge. Now I've got my '64 bus the gauge reads very low - I put six gallons of gas in the tank and it came upto the first 1/4 mark - I did about 30 miles in it and it read half way between R and the first 1/4 mark. Does 6 gallons fill the reserve area and up to the first mark ? (In the UK that equates to about 15 quid's worth of petrol - I think it should read about 3/4 of a tank) I built a 12 to 6v dc-dc converter capable of sourcing 1.7amps, so I am gonna power the fuel circuit off it and see if I get a better reading - of course it could be that the gauge or sender is knackered, the bus's last MOT was 1985 so I figure the sender it hasn't seen much full-scale movement for a while. Can anyone draw me an ASCII for the fuel gauge circuit - please. Lee. L.S.Griffiths@Phycics.Salford.ac.uk
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