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Old 01-18-2011, 10:06 AM   #7
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Re: thinking ahead about fuel supply

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Originally Posted by jiggityjoe87 View Post
hypothetical situation. Say I buy a 31 gallon gas tank and use the 40 gallon sending unit I already have. and during the progress of the build i hook up the electrical connections to the sending unit with the gas gauge to see where it registers on the gas gauge. In the long run is there a way of augmenting the position of the gas gauge needle to be where it needs to be in relation to the actual gas level in the tank
You could bend the float tube rod to make it read correct. All you would have to do is use a ohm meter, put say 5 gal of gas in it and get the float to read 0ohm and you would have a 5 gal reserve.
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