Fuel gauge wouldn't work
 

Fuel gauge wouldn't work, after trouble shooting I found the problem and it only took $350.00 to get it to show full. The problem was no gas in the tank. VV's ready to go!:hitfan:

Things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.VV are you going to, make our V run as well as the Lake Norman run.I hope so.;

I knew this thread would catch your attention Hyper!!:hitfan:

I'm looking hard at it Hyper, I'm hoping to make at least one.




Need a little help here, 496 HO closed cooling, I installed water pressure gauges and they have machinical sender, you know the plastic tubing to the gauge. I installed it on the motor and don't get a reading on the gauge while the engine is running with water hose attached and engine at operating temp. Have I got it installed wrong? Do you have to bleed the line to the gauge? I installed the plastic tubing on the front starboard side of the engine below the heat exchanger. I was told to install it on the back of the engine on the oil cooler but my cooler has no place to mount anything, it just has 2 oil lines and a in and out water line. I was told to remove the sender from the oil cooler and install a T. There is a sender back there but it is on the manifold not the oil cooler. On the diagram below I installed the tubing to #6 plug. See red arrow.
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Or should I install it here?
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http://www.mercruiserparts.com/Show_...COOLING+SYSTEM

Tell us more! :cool-smiley-011:

You are not likley to get a lot of pressure on a hose. On my last Fountain the water pressure gauges were hooked in at one of the drain plugs in the block itself, but it was not a closed system like the 496. The new boat has 525's which are closed cooling, I'll be working on it today and will take a look.

I would not bleed the air out of the line. On the last one I would actually disconnect it at the gauge and blow it out when I was winterizing at the end of the season.

You could have just called Hyper, he has the fuel gauge deal all figured out, so I hear. It will read empty when there is little or no fuel in the tank, shortly after it gets to empty mark the engines, for some reason, will no longer run. I understand he's run this experiment several times and has established the fact that it is correct.

I have seen him "drifting" in Eastern Bay before. The best part was the look on his face when the sailboat passed him!!! :evilb: Ok, it sounded good anyway!!:hitfan:

That is the most politically correct way of saying he run out of gas!!!

I took the sensor out on the black arrow diagram, put a tee there and installed the sensor back in then connected the plastic hose there. I figure if the pressure smartcraft is in the same location I should be good

Thanks a lot, how come nobody told me the back seat folded down? I figured it out when I fell my fat a$$ between the seat and engines, something had to give and it wasn't the engine.

This should give you a good laugh< After installing the gauges I went to turn the ignition switches on. Well they wouldn't turn, Remember these are brand new switches and worked fine before I installed them. I thought I must have tightened them up to much and screwed them up or something. Wife and I went to the parts store, I was going to by 2 new ignition switches, When we got inside the store and the dude found the switches I needed, The wife asked me, "Huney did you try to switch key's on the switches"? At that point I felt like that little piss ant pulling that big old frieght train. Then she told the dude that waited on us, "See what I have to put up with"! Hey that's my line I told her.

Only reason I am telling you this is because you guy's don't know anyone here in town that I know. VV
Hyper you feel better now?

Hey VV,

I checked the water pressure deal out today on mine, the hoses for the gauges go into a fitting in the block one of the drain plug holes.