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DS-777 · Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 134 Location: Michigan USA

Okay, someone had to ask this before, but I have terrible luck with the search engine and rarely find anything remotely close to what I'm looking for. Anyhow, the gas gauge goes from 1/1 to R. Does the R stand for refill, or what?

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Joes924Racer · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

I had a heck odf a time getting mine to work theres a few posts on
cleaning the guage insert in the tank.

I cant bekive mine still works
after rebuilding it it still wouldnt
work. It was a wire loose up by the guage boy was that a fun one to sort out.
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Mike924 · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2601 Location: IoW UK

I always take R to mean 'reserve', but 're-fill' will do.

So would 'Rip to the nearest gas station', or 'You're gonna Run dry soon', or "Gas, Right away!', "Really, I need gas', or being a German car, it could be 'Raus! Get gas!'

Something along those lines...
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timstar92404 · Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 2075 Location: richmond BC

I don't trust my gas gauge when it shows that its almost empty and I fill it up with 20 bucks it shows that it is over half full but that can't be right and then it goes down alot very quickly with little driving and sometimes goes up.
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Mike924 · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2601 Location: IoW UK

Mine's like that too. It goes down very quickly from just over half to about a quarter, then sits at a quarter for ages and then quickly goes down to R(if I let it get that far).
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1993 Porsche 968 Coupe, Midnight Blue, 6 spd

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D Hook · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3158 Location: Omaha, NE

On the older models, the R stands for "Rust". When you get that low, you're just sucking in the rust from the tank.

But yes, the R does stand for reserve, according to the glove box manual. Though I liked some of the other definitions much better.

Also, when you corner, the guage is effected by the centrifical force, making it go up or down, depending on the corner. On mine, turning a hard right makes it go down. Hard left makes it go up.
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924RACR · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:06 am Post subject:

LOL!

Sounds like a few of you have some sender cleaning in your futures... that or maybe even just that the sender ground has broken (as I found happened on mine, even after cleaning the sender guts).
http://www.924.org/techsection/gas_sender.htm
(that's in the Electrical section of the Tech Section)
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924RACR · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:07 am Post subject:

Hey, where in MI are you at?
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DS-777 · Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 134 Location: Michigan USA

Thanks guys. I'm in a town called Iron Mountain in the Upper Penninsula.
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924RACR · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:53 am Post subject:

A Yooper! Cool! Welcome to the board!
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'82 931 Plat. Silver
#25 Hidari Firefly P2 sports prototype

Joes924Racer · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:54 am Post subject:

Well yea I remeber 20 bucks could almost fill it now its double.
kind a sad really if you drive it.
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1980 porsche Turbo 931GT Replica
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WhoDak · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 492 Location: Akron, OH

It moves quickly through the bottom half of the gauge(left side) because the I think it's proportionally different on each half. There's the R mark, then the next mark to the right is the half...but it's almost 2/3rd of the way to 1/1. So from that mark to 1/1 is another half, it'll spend more time in that half of the tank than the last quarter of the tank. I'm guessing its from the way the float in the tank is on an arm? I don't know how it's setup, but that's my assumption.
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DS-777 · Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 134 Location: Michigan USA

Thanks Vaughn, glad to be here.

I don't know what the issue is with my gauge, it works(ish), but it only goes up to 3/4 and down to 1/4. So every time I get to a 1/4 tank I have to fill up just in case.
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D Hook · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3158 Location: Omaha, NE

Does the warning light work?
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WhoDak · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 492 Location: Akron, OH

If you're afraid to get it down too far past 1/4 and you want to see if the warning light works, let it get to 1/4ish and take a right hand turn pretty hard, it should light up.
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