Have you tried rotating the sender? I have read that it can stick due to
mis-placement. No pun intended.
Michael in San Antonio
91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'
73 Beetle

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM, miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>wrote:

> I've searched and cannot find this......on my 88 Westy, the gas gauge
> drops to 1/2 tank, within 50 miles of travel. It then sits there a
> long time, waiting for the actual level to catch up, then it operates
> fine. Recently there was a post regarding a similar malfunction, and
> this was addressed by changing out an electrical part.......what was
> this?
> The gas gauge acted the same way before I replaced the gas tank and
> sender with new.
> Thanks............
> Miguel
>
> I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
>  - Thomas A. Edison
>