<VV> 66 Corsa gas gauge

[MarK Durham]

Bryan, you probably want to know before draining the tank and pulling the
guage, however, unless you want to tip the car to get the float arm to move
so you cna check it, you've got to take it out and see what happened.
 Mark Durham
Hauser, Idaho
62 Monza coupe Red/Red 4 speed


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Bryan Blackwell via VirtualVairs <
virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Before I order parts, I want to make sure I checked this correctly.  Car
> is a '66 Corsa with the factory gauge.  When I got it the gas gauge worked
> correctly.  Now it always sits on "E", which has led to some good stories
> for our middle kid, but I'd like to fix it.
>
> I disconnected the wire at the sender and the needle swings over to more
> than full.  Ohmmeter at the sender stud on the tank reads 1.5.  My
> conclusion is the float has failed.  Yes?
>
> --Bryan
>
> Bryan Blackwell | Springfield, Va. | bryan at skiblack.com |
> http://autoxer.skiblack.com/
>   Corvairs: '62 700 Wagon, '64 Greenbrier, '65 Corsa, '66 Corsa
>   '69 Road Runner, '99 Neon R/T, '00 Miata SE, '09 Ford F-150
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