<VV> RE: gas tank sender question

Keith Hammett khammett at stainlessfab.com
Wed Aug 3 16:11:58 EDT 2005


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>The Earlies read 60 ohms

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Earlies and FC's were 0 to 30 ohms (Source "Corvair Basics").  But since we
are dealing with a '66 it would be 0 to 90 ohms as correctly stated.


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>1  the tank is 14 gallons......GM  left a "safety margin"...approx. 3-5
gal.,
>so most would never actually run out of gas....

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Should note that the 1960 model was an 11 gallon tank and the FC has an 18
gallon tank, all others are the 14 gallon tank.  (Source "Corvair Basics")

Keith Hammett



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