It occurred to me that I've never really posted many pics of my van on here, though calling it a restoration is a bit ambitious as most of the work is done in the 9 years I've owned it thus far. Today's efforts..... Fitted my new wheels, had them a fair while and had some time to plonk the on. From To It's been in storage for 18 months and need a clean...check out the cab door fit. I owe @GONA66 a debt for all the free advice regarding adapters, tyres etc, cheers buddy!
As its on wedding duty at the end of the month, and it's a fair way, I need the fuel sender vaguely working. I've isolated the fault to the sender itself. As it doesn't have a hatch, I was loath the cut it, but 1 hrs work compared to engine out....time to get Jiggy (saw) with it. Schofields to a repair panel that I've cut to size as I didn't want a huge hole. Just need to sort the swarf then paint. I was going to put a thin rubber gasket and rivet it in, but I now think I'll go with self tappers (less swarf if I need to go in again). The panel is an inch wider than the hole. This site was a great reference, though you can do this with tank in situ, there maybe 3 inch clearance but obviously don't if you can smell petrol (I had the option of a Dremel or an angle grinder, I chose jigsaw, no sparks, took 5 mins) http://www.specialpatrolgroup.co.uk/spooky/access/access.html
Am going to test it tomorrow, I wanted all drilling, cutting, sanding done prior to opening the tank....I've had two fire buckets (i.e.water) and two extinguishers on standby all day. Am giving all surfaces a razzle with etch tonight, then rustoleum tomorrow after ive looked at the sender. I'm guessing the new 'German quality' are the ones from the east immediately after the war....that sort of quality?
Whilst waiting for paint to dry and positevely giddy that today hasn't ended in the usual way when I work on the van, which is one of: I fubar something on it I break the one tool that fits the particular job I misplace the above tool literally 1 minute after having it in my hand....then find it 3 weeks later The parts I have are incorrect or don't fit I end up in A&E. I decided to ride the wave of moderate success and make some kick panels (I only had 1, removed from the van years ago). So....this.... To this I used this plastic sheet @rickyroo sorted me with a few years ago....mega flexy but a shocker to sand as it sticks to everything.....no wonder it's in fish and dolphins etc. Bloody stuff.
Looks buggered to me, both the windings and some sort of connection look shot. If you follow a line from the tip of my thumb up to the aperture, zoom in there seems to be a copper piece that's fractured. Anyone recommend a replacemen source?
to make sure there is nothing wrong with your gauge/dash ground the wire that was on the sender and the gauge should go to full. if the gauge is ok then the sender is here: https://www.vwheritage.com/211919051a-fuel-gauge-sender-unit-level-type-vw-spare just double check the float doesn't have any holes in the new one before you fit it. or use your old float
Cheers buddy....I went down to Machine7 as they are fairly local to me (and around 6 miles away from Eddy's if anyone at Techenders didn't know this). Fair play to the guy working there, for some reason my bike killed it's battery (need to look at this later too), he lent me some Allen keys and jumped it off his really nice splitty....great service from those guys!
Yes, need the van moveable by tomorrow. So....new sender doesn't click in place like the old one does....have tried muscling it, but as I've painted the aperture I've not gone full hulk yet. Plugged it all in and got... Added half the mowers spare fuel can in and got I have no idea how much fuel a tank takes (all my manuals are in storage), I assume it's fairly accurate but will know more tomorrow.
Ah, therefore using blind optimism /please god let it work maths it's fairly accurate as input in maybe 3 litres, and it moved maybe 5% I'll put 14 litres in tomorrow and see what it reads.
