Dragged my bus in after work and set about cutting out an access hole to get to the sender unit. I had the measurements and a piece of 69 floor thanks to Slammedkustom 
My air saw made short work of things and I soon exposed the sender. Earthed it out but the fuel gage did not move. So managed to release the instument panel enough to test the gauge, it sprang to full indicating a break in the feed to the sender.
I remembered seeing a brown wire with a tag on coming from the loom by the voltage regulator. I got my mate to give the feed wire at the sender a tug while I held the mystery wire in the engine compartment to see if I could feel anything. As he tugged it the wire came out in his hand! :shock: Obviously it had beed severed at some time in the buses life. Earthed the wire in the engine compartment out and up went the gauge
With the hole cut out it was an easy fix, slid a length of welding wire under one of the ribs and found just enough room to get it through above the tank, taped the new wire on and pulled it all back through. Terminal either end, connected it all up and hey presto! working fuel gauge! :mrgreen: Screwed the plate down with some sticky sealing faom and job done. :mrgreen:
The moral of this story is that I would recommend everybody to cut an acces hole. If I had not I could never have rewired it and cured the fault.
Also had enough time to wire back the exchanger flaps to open, van was toast on the way home, a far cry from this mornings journey to work at 5:30am :shock:
My air saw made short work of things and I soon exposed the sender. Earthed it out but the fuel gage did not move. So managed to release the instument panel enough to test the gauge, it sprang to full indicating a break in the feed to the sender.
I remembered seeing a brown wire with a tag on coming from the loom by the voltage regulator. I got my mate to give the feed wire at the sender a tug while I held the mystery wire in the engine compartment to see if I could feel anything. As he tugged it the wire came out in his hand! :shock: Obviously it had beed severed at some time in the buses life. Earthed the wire in the engine compartment out and up went the gauge
With the hole cut out it was an easy fix, slid a length of welding wire under one of the ribs and found just enough room to get it through above the tank, taped the new wire on and pulled it all back through. Terminal either end, connected it all up and hey presto! working fuel gauge! :mrgreen: Screwed the plate down with some sticky sealing faom and job done. :mrgreen:
The moral of this story is that I would recommend everybody to cut an acces hole. If I had not I could never have rewired it and cured the fault.
Also had enough time to wire back the exchanger flaps to open, van was toast on the way home, a far cry from this mornings journey to work at 5:30am :shock:
