Re: Re: ’55 11BN in Vancouver

[Anonymous]

@Fjord wrote:

So after 7 1/2 months my car is finally insured and back on the road! It passed the provincial inspection on the first attempt, which was a pleasant surprise. Of course now that it’s driving I’ll be starting a new to-do list, and I hope to go for a ride in a local sorted car or two to understand what is normal for these cars, and what needs to be on my list. So far:

– the fuel sender is out since it always reads 20 litres

OK I have an answer for the fuel gauge situation for you.

At the 80th Anniversary Rally in France last weekend I bouught a new fuel sender unit on spec for a bargain 20 euro from Claude Renel http://www.renelauto.fr/ at the auto jumble which I fitted today.

Now I knew I had less than half a tank of fuel so when I turned the new one on, it still showed circa 20 litres, so off I went to the garage and added 20 litres of fuel and the gauge went down to showing 10 litres 😆

However swapped the Blue and Yellow leads over on the sender and my gauge now shows 40 litres which is somewhere near correct. I’ll know better next fill as I’ll brim the tank off and watch what happens.

BTW when I took the old unit apart the connector was all bent inside and not touching the resistor correctly but the casing was also cracked so it got binned.