erratic fuel gauge!!

[Pablobongo]

Cheers Aitch,

yeah feeling quite pleased about my "impulse" purchase now, mainly thanks to the advice from this forum!.....i am off on a 2,400 mile round trip in late July, so really wanted to feel comfortable with the bongo running as she should, and with everything working .

Paul

[missfixit70]

Glad to hear it Paul Whatever you do make sure you take some piccies & get them up on here - not jealous at all of your upcoming trip

[mikeonb4c]

Cheers Aitch,

yeah feeling quite pleased about my "impulse" purchase now, mainly thanks to the advice from this forum!.....i am off on a 2,400 mile round trip in late July, so really wanted to feel comfortable with the bongo running as she should, and with everything working .

Paul

Wow - that sounds like fun. Make sure you keep checking and fettling until then, esp. in respect of coolant system etc.

[mobilecat]

Congratulations on your new purchase.

I know you have had some techincal solutions to the fuel guage issue - but I wanted to raise a slightly less technical one.

When I fill up, my fuel guage doesn't tell me the tank is full. It takes a good while for it to 'rise'' to the occasion. I have become accustomed to 'not looking' for at least 5 minutes after I start the engine and from then on - its perfect.

Is it possible it had been recently filled and hadn't 'adjusted' properly or that its just a little strange like mine? Keep an eye on it next time you fill up because it may not be as problematic as it sounds. Didn't it click by the way to tell you to stop filling?

[francophile1947]

When I fill up, my fuel guage doesn't tell me the tank is full. It takes a good while for it to 'rise'' to the occasion. I have become accustomed to 'not looking' for at least 5 minutes after I start the engine and from then on - its perfect.

Mine is the same - I think it's normal

[Pablobongo]

Congratulations on your new purchase.

I know you have had some techincal solutions to the fuel guage issue - but I wanted to raise a slightly less technical one.

When I fill up, my fuel guage doesn't tell me the tank is full. It takes a good while for it to 'rise'' to the occasion. I have become accustomed to 'not looking' for at least 5 minutes after I start the engine and from then on - its perfect.

Is it possible it had been recently filled and hadn't 'adjusted' properly or that its just a little strange like mine? Keep an eye on it next time you fill up because it may not be as problematic as it sounds. Didn't it click by the way to tell you to stop filling?

Thanks for the congrats!,

basically, when i got her, it was reading half a tank...so 5 mins down the road i decided to fill her up.....only to find i could only get about £4 into the tank!, so after paying and pulling out of the fuel station, it dropped to below empty!....panicking a bit, i drove about 20 miles and pulled into the next fuel station, where i tried again....£4.78 later, and diesel all over my foot from an overflowing tank!!.....and gauge still reading empty........75 miles later and tank fluctuating between quarter of a tank and empty all the way home.
After read various threads pointed out to me by members of the forum....i decided that yesterday i was going to try to fix it, and would you believe it, i did!. Totally did away with the original earth to the sender unit, and made a new one going from one of the screws that secures the sender to the tank, to the bolt that holds one of the seat brackets to the floor. Result, one correctly functioning fuel gauge!!, and one chuffed bongo owner!

Thanks to this forum, i avoided a costly visit to a garage!

Paul

[rondor]

could be just a bad earth on the sender unit. its behind the front seats under carpet covered with a panel.

control I have a Problem ,new kitchen and flooring over plate, needle sticking half way

[francophile1947]

could be just a bad earth on the sender unit. its behind the front seats under carpet covered with a panel.

control I have a Problem ,new kitchen and flooring over plate, needle sticking half way

You're right, you have a problem Can it be got at from underneath the van?

[missfixit70]

Don't think it's too hard to drop the tank, worth a look.