[diesel_mercedes] Re: '81 240D wildly fluctuating fuel gauge

 

I didn't know I had a reserve light until a few years in, and plenty Starton.

Rob
'85 300D
Garden Grove, CA

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--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, briankk <briankk@...> wrote:
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> Had that problem with my 240, lots'o algae killer fixed the gauge right up.  Moss growing on the wire or something...
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> --- On Sat, 1/28/12, Brian Barnhart <brianbarn@...> wrote:
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> From: Brian Barnhart <brianbarn@...>
> Subject: [diesel_mercedes] '81 240D wildly fluctuating fuel gauge
> To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 5:20 PM
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> Since recently replacing the instrument cluster in my '81 240D so that I would have the amazing luxury of a working odometer, I have a bizarre fuel gauge.  It flits around quite a bit, and sometimes flies back and forth from full to empty and back.  Sometimes the movement is less pronounced, say from full to 3/4.  This movement is not constant - sometimes the gauge is just fine.  The temp gauge also fluctuates sometimes, but not nearly as much.  The oil pressure gauge is rock steady all the time.
> Is this a common situation, and is there a fix?  I can estimate fuel usage as long as the odometer is working, but it would be nice to have a steady fuel gauge.
> By the way, I got 28.5 mpg on the tank I filled today.
>  Not bad for around-town driving.
> Thanks in advance for the feedback.
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