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Old 09-22-2012, 11:22 PM
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Fuel sender specs needed

Does anyone here know the resistance specs for our fuel senders??
I have a Dakota Digital gas gauge i want to install in my truck

It ca be set for:

Sender type...........................Empty.............. .........................Full

GM 0 - 90............................0 ohms...................................90 ohms
Ford....................................73 ohms..................................10 ohms
VDO....................................10 ohms.................................180 ohms
Stewart Warner / Sun...........240 ohms................................33 ohms

Am i right guessing that the VDO setting is the right one, since out gauges are VDO??
Old 09-22-2012, 11:25 PM
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I wish I had the answers for you. I'd like to install aftermarket gauges to replace my entire cluster and would like to know the same. I never thought to measure the empty to full ohms range of the sending unit while I had it out last year.
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Empty Graduation 90 ohms +-3 ohms
Enpty stop Greater than 96.5 ohms
Full Graduatiion 12 ohms +- 3 ohms
Full Stop less than 8 ohms
1/2 45.3 ohms +- 3 ohms

Sourse '93 Service manual

Bob

PS Note the above change in the Service Manual Year!
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120 is empty, 10 is full. Ours work the opposite of newer trucks.
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Would that range happen to be correct for all sending units, '89-'93?
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