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04-04-2020, 04:00 PM | #21 |
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Re: reliable fuel gauge? anyone?
I have had good luck with John Wolf restoring my old sending units.
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04-04-2020, 07:50 PM | #22 |
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Re: reliable fuel gauge? anyone?
So how are you getting resistance readings out of a set of points? Or am I misreading something? And what resistor are you loosening up? I'm confused here. The KS sending units are a set of points that open and close to vary the current.
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know how the senders with the bellows on the top work, I am not using any of them. I will check a few of them Monday. G.M.
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04-04-2020, 08:08 PM | #24 |
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Re: reliable fuel gauge? anyone?
Interesting, the only senders Ford used that I am aware of were the KS units from the mid 1930s up into the 1980s or so. Do you have a photo of one? (Tubman's photo I believe of the insides)
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04-04-2020, 09:18 PM | #25 |
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Re: reliable fuel gauge? anyone?
Not my picture (mine was of a temperature sender), but there is obviously a set of of points in there. There was a set in the temperature sender as well.
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04-04-2020, 09:57 PM | #26 |
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04-05-2020, 09:13 AM | #27 |
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Re: reliable fuel gauge? anyone?
First 3 photos and last photo show 1940 Ford GAS TANK SENDING UNIT unit innards. Disregard messy soldering attempt.
Fourth photo shows 1940 Ford dash FUEL gauge innards. Last edited by 19Fordy; 04-05-2020 at 09:20 AM. |
04-05-2020, 10:17 AM | #28 |
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Good pictures, "19Fordy". Now, does anyone want to speculate about the purpose of the toothed wheel in picture #2?
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04-05-2020, 10:55 AM | #29 |
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Re: reliable fuel gauge? anyone?
Great pictures of the fuel tank sending unit details. Picture 3 shows the toothed wheel has a slope or ramp built into it, so I am going to guess it is used to adjust the gap of the contact points.
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04-05-2020, 12:12 PM | #30 |
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The purpose of the star wheel is to fine tune the location of the gauge needle for accurate readings on the dash gauge. Turning it CW moves the gauge needle towards the FULL mark. Turning it CCW moves it closer to EMPTY mark. The movement of the star wheel must be done VERY CAREFULLY in just teeny, weeny, itsey, bitsey amounts with a tiny flat blade screwdriver. You must have the patience of a toothache as its a tedious process.
Read all about it in post #4 here. https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showt...k+sending+unit Last edited by 19Fordy; 04-05-2020 at 10:00 PM. |
04-05-2020, 12:31 PM | #31 |
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Exactly! Just another advantage of the "King-Seeley" system.
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04-05-2020, 03:49 PM | #32 |
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Re: reliable fuel gauge? anyone?
I'm using one of the senders in my F1 from Dennis Carpenter;
https://www.dennis-carpenter.com/en/...k-sending-unit Working on 12 volts with a 6 volt power converter running the gauges, it certainly looks better than most of the cheapo ones you see for sale. I have no idea how good my gauge is but it now dependably works but only swings the needle from 1/4 to 3/4. Not working like new but now that I know it's quirks I'm getting by with it. Sure beats walking home... again.
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04-05-2020, 04:01 PM | #33 |
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This is the bellows type sender. G.M.
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04-05-2020, 04:33 PM | #34 |
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I did a lot of gas gage work when I worked nine years for a car collector with some 400 cars.
A late ‘36 had an electric fuel gage wheras early ‘36 had the same hydrostatic gage as the ‘35. We never tried to make the hydrostic gages work. The late ‘36 electric gages bolt right in the ‘36 so I put electric 36 units in all of out ‘35 and early 36 cars. We only had 6 volt cars but C&G has everything you need to put in 12 volt gages or convert the 6 volt stuf to work on 12. For non Ford cars I ordered gages and tank units for 6 volt Jeeps. I have bought a set when my local NAPA was still in business. It consisted of a round gage, a tank unit and the ring you have the radiator shop solder to the tank to fit the tank unit to. I did that when I converted my F1 over to 12 volts. Always accurate. On my 12 volt Nash I used a Chev sending unit and got a round gage from o’reilys for a Chev. It’s worked fine for 23 years. |
04-05-2020, 09:14 PM | #35 |
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04-05-2020, 09:56 PM | #36 |
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No they also used the used the with the sending electrical components
up in the top. That's the one with the pictures showing the parts. G.M.
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Art, PLEASE let us know if that replacement gauge reads accurately across the full scale. Take photos as you go.
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04-06-2020, 01:16 AM | #38 |
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I have and I love my original gauge panel in my 47 truck. I am installing an ot diesel engine. Is there any reason not to thread the king seeley sending units and use stock gauges in my conversioin?
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04-06-2020, 07:14 AM | #39 |
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The gauges will work in any engine. G.M.
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"Most were stuck in one position and we had to spray carb cleaner in the resistor and work them until we got an ohm reading of zero empty and about 30 ohms full or it may have been 30 empty and zero full." Can you post a photo of one of these? The 36 and 40 wiring diagrams show the sender schematics with the points and heater coils. Last edited by JSeery; 04-06-2020 at 11:03 AM. |
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