gas gage woes

[ojh]

i rewired a '52 panel wagon and it has repro gages, the gas gage won't work. The sending unit in the tank is a modern sender, is the new resistor compatable with the early gage If not is there a fix. Appreciate any help, thanks oj

[Gene Sharp]

Ok you are dealing with two problems
One the early guage is 6 volt
you need a resistor in the positive lwire to guage to drop
your voltage from 12 volts
Second is check out the ohm reading on the sender
most modern guages have a different ohm Value
so what I did (on 53 Chevy pickup with blazer gas tank)
I was putting in a new tank so found a flat place on top of tank and took a hole saw and drilled a hole the size for the 53 guage and installed it
I them used the origional Blazer pickup tube to get gas and hooked guage wire
to 53 sender and it works

Gene Sharp

[ojh]

Thanks Gene, never even thought about the 12v to 6v thing. Will ponder on this a bit.