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Hey all.
I have an Elko (Impco copy) and it has a digital light gauge next to the gas/petrol switch. I've seen a few cars share the gauge in the cluster. How can I wire my setup to use the fuel gauge in the cluster? Cheers. |
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| twase |
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Easy provided you can get the correct range value sender for your tank. Wire a relay off the gas lockoff so you switch either the petrol or gas sender line to the cluster gauge input.
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| ILLaViTaR |
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twason wrote: Easy provided you can get the correct range value sender for your tank. Wire a relay off the gas lockoff so you switch either the petrol or gas sender line to the cluster gauge input.
Hey mate. Where would I get the correct range value sender from? |
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Any LPG installer/mechanic should be able to help you out. Crescent Motorsport in Sydney would be able to ship one down to you. (02) 9600 6229, speak to Joe.
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Check the gauge in the tank first. It will most likely be 0-90 Ohms. Ideally you want the 0-176 Ohms or something like that. The 0-90 will work it just means that your fuel gauge will only show just under 3/4 when you are really full. Makes no difference really. I ran it like this for about 40,000K's. I only changed mine recently because I found that a tank I had laying around had the right sender in it.
cheers Scott
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Thanks guys.
I have the current gas gauge (digital) built into the petrol/gas switch. Will I have to replace it with a different switch? Also I'm not an expert on relay's. Would I need a 5 point/wire one? As in 1 for the fuel sender/cluster, 1 for the gas sender, 1 for the gas switch???, 1 for the earth and one for the petrol sender? I'm assuming that off this diagram: http://www.fordforums.com.au/attachment ... ntid=31326 |
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Age: 49 Posts: 391 Joined: 22nd Aug 2008 Ride: 2002 AUII Fairlane Sportsman V8 Location: Roxby Downs |
i would like to fit a factory Ford AU LPG switch & use that to change between LPG & Petrol.
I would like to use my cluster's fuel gauge as the gauge for both units. When switched to LPG it will show my LPG amount, when i switch it to Petrol the gauge will show how much petrol i have all on the dashboard cluster. My gas system is injection type & i am sure when i was mucking around with the ECU for the LPG system i seen somewhere that the resistance type for empty - full was 0 - 90 Ohm's. Anyone got any idea's??? |
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| ToranaGuy |
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My gas injection system, you can alter the values the gauge will read, and if I decided to wire it up, I could get it to make the dashboard fuel gauge read the correct level of LPG, but I prefer to have 2 gauges, so I know how much of each fuel I have.
Cheers ToranaGuy
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Age: 49 Posts: 391 Joined: 22nd Aug 2008 Ride: 2002 AUII Fairlane Sportsman V8 Location: Roxby Downs |
my AU's dash cluster fuel gauge has a resistance value of 2 - 176 ohm's.
I know i will need to change the LPG's sender unit's gauge. I am more interested on what the electrical side of things are. Currently i have the following LPG system installed. http://www.autogasitalia.it/db/prodotto ... ng&id=2752 |
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Age: 49 Posts: 391 Joined: 22nd Aug 2008 Ride: 2002 AUII Fairlane Sportsman V8 Location: Roxby Downs |
Torana Guy
do you know how i would need to wire it all up so that i can see my LPG levels on the dashboard cluster? |
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