Hi to all,
i took the marbella's fuel tank sender unit out the other day and found out why the gauge had stuck at half full (causing me to run out of fuel a couple of times ).
Here is the unit (fiddly to get it out the tank, but just takes some carefull jiggling: There a re loads of small nuts at the top holding it on so make sure you get them all un-done:
would the panda ones be the same? I beleive that someones panda on here had a faulty gauge too so thought even if this is a different design the problem and solution could be the same....
In the above picture, there is a plunger (the dirty brown cylinder bit with a rod sticking out of the top) designed to prevent the float from moving every time the fuel sloshes about....this gets clogged up with crud so causes the gauge to stick...just carefully ease the plunger up and clean it out and this should have it fixed.
Just thought I would share my findings as the sender units are a pain to find!
Cheers,
Si
i took the marbella's fuel tank sender unit out the other day and found out why the gauge had stuck at half full (causing me to run out of fuel a couple of times ).
Here is the unit (fiddly to get it out the tank, but just takes some carefull jiggling: There a re loads of small nuts at the top holding it on so make sure you get them all un-done:
would the panda ones be the same? I beleive that someones panda on here had a faulty gauge too so thought even if this is a different design the problem and solution could be the same....
In the above picture, there is a plunger (the dirty brown cylinder bit with a rod sticking out of the top) designed to prevent the float from moving every time the fuel sloshes about....this gets clogged up with crud so causes the gauge to stick...just carefully ease the plunger up and clean it out and this should have it fixed.
Just thought I would share my findings as the sender units are a pain to find!
Cheers,
Si
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