[Vwpickups] instrument cluster

[Konrad]

Methinks that any fuel gauge (itself) from any Wabbit of said vintage  
would fix you up. IIRC the gauge unscrews from the cluster. Dubious  
if fuel type makes any difference, seems the sender is what would be  
special.

And, if you have a good estimate of your usual MPG, just record your  
odometer at fill up (you do this anyway, to track your MPG, right?  
Doesn't everybody? ;) ). Odo Reading plus ( MPG times 15.0 gal.) =  
Odo reading to fill up (somewhat) before, or chance an inconvenient  
stroll.

I live dangerously. Odo is inop. Fuel gauge is of questionable  
accuracy. And not my daily driver. One of these days, I will be  
playing with this myself. Question is, how much extra exercise will I  
get first? :)

Konrad (anal engineer type)
'81 VWPU/GTi
'89 P944S2
'75 C150M/150


On Mar 29, 2009, at 2:39 PM, sunvale1 at comcast.net wrote:

> I spend the last 4 hours attempting to get the gas gauge to work  
> but have no luck. I know the little 3 prong voltage stabilizer is  
> good (new) the sender is good, get fluctuation on the volt meter as  
> I move it so I just want to find a gauge cluster that is a known  
> worker.