82 model MY Touring Wagon Fuel gauge
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:58 pm
A few years ago the speedo in the original 6 gauge cluster in the 82 Touring wagon dash started going nuts.
On inspection it appears some oil made its way up the speedo cable and into the speedo.
Since this happened I have been running another cluster but I got sick of the non standard back ground lighting colour (yellow) compared to the original clusters background colour (green) a week or so ago I took a look at the original cluster and the speeds looks to be working again with no oil present so I swapped the original cluster back.
Good to have the original cluster back in but yesterday after putting only $25 worth of fuel in when the gauge was at less than quarter the gauge went up to almost full and has been slowly moving between 3/4 and 1/2 as it sees fit.
From other posts I will be looking at wiring issues especially the earth system at the sender (as per another post running an earth from the sender bolt to the chassis).
Does anyone know if new sender units are still around for the early 80's Touring wagons. It has the low fuel light too.
This is a plan B approach in case I need to change the sender over.
Is there a sender gasket that needs replacing too ?
On inspection it appears some oil made its way up the speedo cable and into the speedo.
Since this happened I have been running another cluster but I got sick of the non standard back ground lighting colour (yellow) compared to the original clusters background colour (green) a week or so ago I took a look at the original cluster and the speeds looks to be working again with no oil present so I swapped the original cluster back.
Good to have the original cluster back in but yesterday after putting only $25 worth of fuel in when the gauge was at less than quarter the gauge went up to almost full and has been slowly moving between 3/4 and 1/2 as it sees fit.
From other posts I will be looking at wiring issues especially the earth system at the sender (as per another post running an earth from the sender bolt to the chassis).
Does anyone know if new sender units are still around for the early 80's Touring wagons. It has the low fuel light too.
This is a plan B approach in case I need to change the sender over.
Is there a sender gasket that needs replacing too ?