Re: older style sending unit and gauge
I don't know what the instrumentation/sender values are for Canada - however, "International" standards have used 0 - 90 ohm fuel gauges and senders. What I suggest you do is go to any electronic store (Radio Shack for example) and buy one 90 ohm resistor. This will cost you in the neighborhood of about 50 cents. Disconnect the pink wire from the sender. Connect the resistor between the pink wire and ground. If you have a 90 ohm gauge it should register EMPTY proving you do indeed have a 90 ohm gauge. Have you actually measured the sender resistance. If you have a 0 - 90 ohm sender and a 33-240 ohm gauge, zero ohms will peg the gauge since it expects to see at least 33 ohms or more. Until you measure the sender you don't know what you have. If you had a 0 - 90 ohm gauge and a 33 - 240 ohm sending unit, the gauge would neither reach full nor empty. 240 is too high a resistance for empty (90 ohms) and 33 ohms is too high for full (0 ohms). So my thoughts are you have the wrong sender for the gauge, not the other way around. Finally, while you may have done this already (sorry but I don't go back to re-read old threads from top to bottom when someone starts a new one) but have you connected things like you have and moved the float arm through its travel. If the gauge does not move at all, that sender may be shorted internally. I posted a picture in the last couple of days of a sender and how it can happen.
