Re: fuel sender

[Eric Sheley <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:43 AM 10/24/00 -0400, Jonathan West wrote:
>show the correct fuel level.  I have a dead accurate fuel guage on my
>trophy.  Why can't they get this thing to work like that one?   Does
>anybody actually have a fuel guage that is even close to accurate?
>Which sender do you have if so?  I'm beginning to think the problem is
>in the damn guage itself.

Well the big difference is the tank is shaped differently on the Trophy. 
The senders in the ST tank cannot reach the top of the tank. No way around 
this. This means that a properly functioning fuel gauge on an ST should not 
move at all for the first 80 or so miles. The tank then is wide at the top 
half of the sender and considerably narrower at the bottom half. This means 
you will see a greater rate of drop on the bottom part of the tank.

The key to use of this gauge is to remember that the rate is not linear (my 
truck is the same way, 240 miles on the top half of the tank and 120 miles 
on the bottom half).

Maybe someday they might add a circuit that would compensate for the 
non-linear drop, but I won't hold my breath waiting....

- - Eric


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