We have back on stock the normal fuel senders, with 3 more steps to make it work better.
Ed Uding
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Location: The Netherlands
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My VIN: 11626
We have back on stock the normal fuel senders, with 3 more steps to make it work better.
Ed Uding
www.delorean.eu
I have one of these. Is there any way to keep the fuel guage from fluctuating so much?
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Location: Taylors SC
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There are two holes in the bottom. Try filling one and see if that slows it down enough.
There are some gauges that are not damped at all in the gauge, with those the needle moves VERY quickly and you can actually see the steps in the sender as the float moves. Not sure how to fix that one, I have not taken a gauge apart to see what can fail inside. Normally the gauge moves relatively slowly but I've see a few that look like an analog VU meter.
Dave S
DMC Midwest - retired but helping
Greenville SC
My gauge will move pretty fast upon accel and deccel but smoothly. This fluctuation is more apparent if there is less than a 1/4 tank. Also, the low fuel light was working (new bulb) and now it isn't. Could tightening the screw in the bottom of the unit caused this or maybe just a bad bulb?
Location: Sacramento-ish
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My VIN: 02100
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Jon
1981 DMC-12 #02100. July 1981. 5-speed, black, grooved w/flap.
restoration log, March 2011 to present
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+1
Nope.
I had one of the two screws in mine found the other in the tank rolling around.
Took both out, because for everything you add to slow the fuel escaping it also slows the fuel returning.
I was tired of the gauge slowly dropping uphill and it slowly returning on level ground.
This "was" one of those products just like the angle drive.
"New and improved" until the next "new and improved" one came out.
Everything is relative after all.
Last edited by Jack; 02-08-2013 at 04:34 PM.
Location: Sacramento-ish
Posts: 4,408
My VIN: 02100
Club(s): (NCDMC) (DCUK)
Jon
1981 DMC-12 #02100. July 1981. 5-speed, black, grooved w/flap.
restoration log, March 2011 to present
full and detailed photo restoration log