Speedhut gauge criticism (1 Viewer)

[TRAIL TAILOR]

I ordered a sender gasket this morning from @RUBEN CROW (Norwalk Toyota) I'll get it reversed out and get some adapter plates made for you guys.

Jason

 

[lcwizard]

WEMA will build you a floatless sender any length, any Ohm range. I've been using the SSL style with a float ring
that climbs a center tube. It allows me to build tanks with overly done baffling where swing floats won't work

wemausa.com

 

[Hojack]

I ordered a sender gasket this morning from @RUBEN CROW (Norwalk Toyota) I'll get it reversed out and get some adapter plates made for you guys.

Jason

I’m in. Let us know J.

 

[Richfj60]

I ordered a sender gasket this morning from @RUBEN CROW (Norwalk Toyota) I'll get it reversed out and get some adapter plates made for you guys.

Jason

Me too. Count me in!

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

Looks like the gasket will be here on Thursday. So maybe by this weekend I'll have an adapter.

J

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

3 of the five hole line up perfect on the OEM gasket to the floatless sending unit.

I can make an adapter but you would still need to drill the tank.. So, you can just "clock" the new floatless sender and drill new holes and use a stock gasket and punch a couple holes.

J

 

[Hojack]

@TRAIL TAILOR
Here’s the thread about the adapter that I’m confused about.

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

@TRAIL TAILOR
Here’s the thread about the adapter that I’m confused about.

And this is where the project died. After I said to simply clock and open up two holes no one asked about an adapter again. If no one speaks up the idea goes into the trash.

 

[Hojack]

And this is where the project died. After I said to simply clock and open up two holes no one asked about an adapter again. If no one speaks up the idea goes into the trash.

So apparently no adapter is needed then? Just drill 2 holes in the sender and your good?

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

So apparently no adapter is needed then? Just drill 2 holes in the sender and your good?

correct

 

[ChaserFJ60]

I sent back my gauges to get a different shade of green and a brights indicator which is technically required to pass a saftey inspection in the state of Texas.

Anywho. This new shade of green is much easier to see at night. I added a tachometer to complete the look and speedhut did the color change and brights indicator for like $68 which isnt terrible

Speedhut has amazing customer service, they're pretty easy to work with on special requests

 

[ProwlerDriver]

Does anyone know the stock 60 water coolant temp thread size? is it pipe thread? im trying to figure out an adapter since the provided one was too small. I bought a 3/8" NPT and that was too big... any help greatly appreciated

 

[ProwlerDriver]

oh and these are my gauges I have going in... speedhut is great and great to work with.

 

[Spook50]

So when a floatless sender is used in conjunction with a Speedhut fuel gauge, does the needle snap right to position as soon as power is applied like with newer vehicles? Just a curiosity.

 

[FJ60Cam]

Does anyone know the stock 60 water coolant temp thread size? is it pipe thread? im trying to figure out an adapter since the provided one was too small. I bought a 3/8" NPT and that was too big... any help greatly appreciated

The stock sender is M16x15

The adapter into the head is NPT though.

 

[Hojack]

So when a floatless sender is used in conjunction with a Speedhut fuel gauge, does the needle snap right to position as soon as power is applied like with newer vehicles? Just a curiosity.

I replaced the stock fuel float with the float less sender and it goes immediately to the fuel level. You do have to calibrate the sender as you would with the stock one. I ran a pigtail from the wire harness at the fuel tank and had the floatless sender in a bucket of diesel in the front seat so I could calibrate it by myself. I got the 7” one so there’s some fuel still in the tank. It’s about 1/2 way down the page.

Builds - Project Snowball ❄️ 85 FJ60 Cummins 4BT/ HX-30 SUPER/ NV4500/ SOA

Rear bumper LED lights showed up

forum.ih8mud.com

 

[FJ60Cam]

The nice thing about the floatless senders is that the resistance ranges are pre-programmed into the Speedhut gauge. You’ll probably get a better accuracy throughout the entire range choosing one of those vs manually calibrating.

Info here:

https://www.speedhut.com/instructions/2in_and_258in_rev_fuel_level_instructions.pdf

 

[ProwlerDriver]

The stock sender is M16x15

The adapter into the head is NPT though.

Thanks! So Is the speedhut npt? I'm trying to figure out how to adapt this. My water pump has is threaded for stock sender.

Edit: Nm found plenty of m16 male to 1/8 npt female adapters

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

The nice thing about the floatless senders is that the resistance ranges are pre-programmed into the Speedhut gauge. You’ll probably get a better accuracy throughout the entire range choosing one of those vs manually calibrating.

Info here:

https://www.speedhut.com/instructions/2in_and_258in_rev_fuel_level_instructions.pdf

Correct. If you use the Tanks Inc floatless senders I prefer the 0-90 ohm model and it is a direct calibration with the gauge.

 

[Spook50]

I replaced the stock fuel float with the float less sender and it goes immediately to the fuel level. You do have to calibrate the sender as you would with the stock one. I ran a pigtail from the wire harness at the fuel tank and had the floatless sender in a bucket of diesel in the front seat so I could calibrate it by myself. I got the 7” one so there’s some fuel still in the tank. It’s about 1/2 way down the page.

Builds - Project Snowball ❄️ 85 FJ60 Cummins 4BT/ HX-30 SUPER/ NV4500/ SOA

Rear bumper LED lights showed up

forum.ih8mud.com

Very cool. Looks like adapting one in is a fairly simple task. I'm guessing there's a float ball of some sort in yours for it to read full when you held it upside down? I'm curious to see if I could easily adapt a custom solid state sender from WEMA to use once I eventually have a Speedhut gauge.