Fuel guage

[Monkey Butler]

What Skunk said. I replaced mine with the vertical float rather than the swing arm. More money but buy the right length and it is plug and play.

I really don't want to run out of gas so I went with the belt & suspenders approach for fuel managemant and also bought the fuel flowsensor and fuel level sensor for my Lowrance HDS GPS.

The fuel flow sender just splices into the fuel line and one wire to the GPS "network". You punch in how many gallons you put in the tank and it calculates gallons used/remaining, MPG, GPH, DTE, etc. just like in fancy cars.

The fuel level sensor connects to the existing tank sender and sends the level to the GPS display. The cool part is that you can program it to compensate for what Skunk was talking about with the V belly tank holding less gas in the bottom half than the top. So if you have a 100 gallon tank when you burn 25 gallons you tell it 3/4 full, 50 gallons, 1/2 full, etc. so that even though the tank level is say half full there may only 25 gallons left. You program it and it will read 1/4 instead of 1/2 full.

The sensors were around $80 each which I thought was cheap insurance and it gives you lots of stuff to play with.

Two things that I hate are being dead in the water from running out of gas or dead batteries yet most of the times you see someone broken down it is for one of these reasons.