Re: [T3] Fuel sender replacement (addendum)

[Daniel Baum <dbaum@isdn.net.il>]

Hi all,

All's well that ends well.

What actually happened is that I broke off the electrical contact. If I want
to be generous with myself I can say that it was brittle with age.

Anyway, I tried the type 1 unit and it does work, but it shows about 1/4 of
a tank less than the type 3 unit. (Thanks to Michael Harrison for telling me
this would happen. You were dead right.). I suppose at a pinch these could
be used by people with no other alternative.

What I actually did in the end was to solder a little piece of wire with a
connector on the end onto the stump of where it broke off, and plug the wire
from the gauge into that. It now works again.

I must say I hated working around the open petrol tank. I had visions of
sacrificing my life for the type 3 cause, and wasn't particularly eager to
do so. Obviously I didn't use the soldering iron anywhere near the tank, but
even so . . . .

One problem I had was that I didn't actually know how much petrol the car
had in the tank, and I didn't believe the fuel gauge when it said nearly
full. Anyway, when I took out the fuel sender I realised it had be right all
along.


Regards to all,

Daniel

> From: Russ Wolfe <russella@prairieinet.net>
> Reply-To: russw@classicvw.org
> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:12:52 -0500
> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] Fuel sender replacement (addendum)
> Resent-From: type3@vwtype3.org
> Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:11:55 -0400
> 
> On Saturday 15 September 2001 07:03, Daniel Baum wrote:
>> I should have mentioned before that the replacement unit is made by VDO,
>> part number 113 919 049D, presumably meant for a Beetle, dated 12/73
>> 
>> 
> That is a Type 1 sending unit. I don't think it will work in a Type 3. Even
> if you can get it into the tank, It will not read correctly.
> I noticed while going through my new Rocky Mountain Motor Works catalog, they
> list the T-3 sending unit, so they are still available.
> Don't be ashamed that you broke yours, I broke mine also. Luckily I had a
> spare, and learned from the experience that you don't use an air hose to blow
> the crud out of them.
> 
> -- 
> Russ Wolfe
> '71 Fastback AT
> '66 Fastback MT (not running yet)
> russw@classicvw.org
> http://www.classicvw.org
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