Escort fuel gauge

[listerjp2]

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Find out why the Hill Assist turns itself off when I switch the lights on, on my Alfa 159

Oh, you mean the Marlin, nothing except drive it.

Adrian

I need to get cracking on a few jobs on mine but I’m suffering from post Covid dug at the moment. Well done, what’s next on it?

[David]

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I need to get cracking on a few jobs on mine but I’m suffering from post Covid dug at the moment. Well done, what’s next on it?

[listerjp2]

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Thankyou, I'm no engineer and just like to workout things.

Keeps my 67 year old brain ticking over.

Adrian

[A_Hogg]

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It's a thumbs up from me!

[dcunn]

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Agreed !

[listerjp2]

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Thank god for vary focals

Bet you needed your glasses for that job, well done.

[dcunn]

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Bet you needed your glasses for that job, well done.

[listerjp2]

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Well my rudimentary dip stick (a stick with marks on it) says 1/4 full as does the fuel gauge.

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Yippee


That's that one jobbed jobbed.

​Adrian

[listerjp2]

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As always I have better ideas later and here we are version 2.

First of all I was never happy with the Ford isolation for the sender as it just used a fibre washer between the connector and earth.

So I took the one from the Smiths gauge and cut a thread on it pushed it through same hole and affixed with a bolt, much better


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Next was the rethink, as you can see from the picture below, I decided to JB Weld the Smiths sender to the original Ford pipe and then cut off the Smiths float arm and solder the original Ford float arm to it. Basically now, it is the Ford unit with the Smiths sender carefully grafted onto it.

I hope this makes sense, now to test.

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And a close up of the graft

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[listerjp2]

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Liberal amounts of JB Weld (that stuff is unbelievable) and a test tomorrow.

Fingers crossed.

Adrian

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Good call, will do.

Adrian

[listerjp2]

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Good call, will do.

Adrian

Don't forget a filter mesh on the pickup to sieve out any crap from the tank.

[jon_wilkinson]

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Don't forget a filter mesh on the pickup to sieve out any crap from the tank.

[David]

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Well done. No more ‘Top Gear Rules’ on the Bicester run

[dcunn]

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Good job !

[listerjp2]

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Cut and shut achieved, now waiting for some JD Weld to finish it off.

Luckily the Smiths pipe fits snuggly into the Ford pipe.

Have checked and the fuel gauge reads accurately.

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