Gagues???

Hi yall.
New to this series stuff. Just got my 1961 SWB petral and the fule guage has a real mind of it's own. I never expected it to be acurate but. It read full thismorning. Put £30 in and now it says emptey. Any idear?

Temp guage also a miss. Hawever I notice that the temp sensor in the frunt of the block has no cable. Do I just need to run a cable from this to the guage?

the temp gauge would work better with a wire from the guage to the sender. check if one is in the loom first.

it is possible that the Voltage Regulator is shot - get a digital one off ebay - cheap as chips - or buy one yoself - or pm me.

M sent.
Just to check. There is nothing moor than a cable from the temp sencer to the guage. That's it? Naw just need some daylight.

Leon. said:

the fule guage has a real mind of it's own.

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That sounds about normal

the temp gauge would work better with a wire from the guage to the sender.

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Sound bit of advice there!

The Series 2...did they have voltage regulators? Thought they came in with the Series 3 with the later dash?

You should have 2 wires to the guage, one to the sender and the other goes to a 10v regulator, you can put a multimeter on both sides of the temp guage to the chassis, one side should read 10 volts with the ignition on.
The fuel guage problem could be a knacked sender, inside the float sender unit there is a wirewound track, a wiper rubs up and down this connected to the float, this track sometimes breaks, meaning that above a certain fuel level the guage reads zero, sound familiar.

rustyrhinos said:

The Series 2...did they have voltage regulators? Thought they came in with the Series 3 with the later dash?

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that's a shame. Mine is a 61 so series two but I have a series 3 dash??

If your dash has been changed, then suspect iffy wiring, look for scotch locks and bodged wiring.

there is still no sine of the parts i am wating for for my most7n so looks like i have all weekend on the landy.

will be going over everything i can making lists of wat needs doing. allso picking up a webber tomorrow as i canot get this zenith to run well. fabd a stereo holder in work today so thats another job.

all in all even though she is not in tiptop condition i am plesed with my 50 year old car and canot wate to get hands dirty

You'd better buy yourself a pair of decent ratchet crimp pliers and a bucket of crimps.

had a good day today. fuel gauge working with a s3 fuel sender to match my s3 dash. still not been able to find the cable of the temp sender in the engine bay so hope i will get round to tracing them of the dial tomorrow.

Thanks.