On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Tony Moore wrote:

> Good morning!
> 
> Seems my fuel guage has been a bit indecisive of late. It can't decide if
> it's half full or under a quarter full, or somewhere in between. Seems ok
> from full to slightly above half. Any ideas?

Sounds like a bad sender to me.  At least that was my problem when my 
fuel guage began acting in a similar fashion.  Time to drop the fuel tank 
and have at it!

The problem, as I recall, is that the "wiper" action of the fuel guage 
sender eventually wipes off the resistive substrate (the sender is just a 
variable pot) giving the fluctuating readings.  

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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