Fuel Gauge 53 Pickup

[jack dalbak]

Gauge not working properly. Had sending unit rebuilt. Can't find gauge. One on eBay but needle pivots from top, mine pivots from bottom. If it will work and mount to my cluster I'll buy it, but don't know. Will buy aftermarket gauge if someone can tell me the ohm resistance that will work. Help?

[41/53dodges]

I can't really help with the gauge, I had to modify one to work but parts are scarce in these parts! you may have better luck on the truck side of the forum, go to the top of the page, click "forum", go to the pilothouse forum, directly below p15-d24 forum.

Hope this helps!

Josh

[greg g]

What is it doing?  Is it a two wire or single wire.  Sometimes all that is needed is to run a seperat ground from the sending unit body to a good ground.

[Ken]

Jack, I can tell you of my experience with the fuel gauge and sending unit in our 52 pilot house, I purchased a new sending unit from Robert's and installed it and it read full all the time the key was on. so I contacted Dan Ohora in Seneca Falls, n.y. phone number 315-712-0071, and told him how mine was working, so he asked me to send him the gauge and sending unit, and he would get to the bottom of the problem.  

in a few days he called and said he found the  problem, it seems in the 40's and 50's Chrysler engineers did alot if experminting with resistance,

they built some units that were 0-78 ohms resistance, some units that were 0-100 ohms resistance and some units that were 0-200 ohms resistance.

In my case the unit from Roberts was 0-78 ohms resistance, but my gauge was 0-200 ohms resistance, so the two would not pear up.

so the end of the story was that he built a 0-200 ohms sending unit to match my gauge, sent them back and I installed them and all works fine.

now you know that part, I hope maybe it's of some help to you, what I've found we won't live long enough to learn it all the hard way--good luck---Ken