OK, Thanks for the responses.  It's obvious that there are a lot out there
that have this issue.

So has anyone ever replaced the fuel guage and actually fixed the problem in
that way?

Thanks,

Kim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damon Campbell" <damoncampbellvw@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: Fuel Guage callibration

> Swapping out clusters (adding a tachometer) did change
> the way my fuel gage read.  I just retrofitted my '84
> non-tach fuel gage into the tachometer one, and all
> was well.  It reads full when full and empty when
> empty... no shortcoming here.
>
> Having said that, swapping out the sender had no
> change on the fuel gage.
>
> -Damon
>
> --- Curt Newsome <tele2222@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> > I bought a new tank and replaced the sending unit
> > assembley at the same time last fall for an
> > unrelated
> > problem.  The gas gauge reads exactly the same as
> > before.  I have also had three different instrument
> > clusters in my van over the past year and all three
> > fuel gauges read exactly the same - so it's probably
> > some shortcoming in the design of the system.
> >
>
>
>
>
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