Chris, Your truck has the rear fuel tank, correct?
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I noticed a single fuel gauge and was curious how you were going to use and monitor the second tank.
That g-wiz stuff has always confused me.
You don't need a relay to toggle the fuel gauge. I used a dual rocker switch with two inputs and one output. Ins from the tank senders and out to the gauge. The senders have the same "sweep".
Allow me to interpret:
I have a do-dad that does magical things to make sure I don't run out of fuel.
Almost. The do-dad allows me to view fuel levels of two tanks independently. That doesn't mean I can't run out
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Almost. The do-dad allows me to view fuel levels of two tanks independently. That doesn't mean I can't run out
That's a cool setup.....great way to do it. I think we're already committed to the way we're going right now and I'm not making any changes.....can't hold up the wheels of progress on this thing
That is how Ford does it at least on the OSB trucks.
Perhaps the other option.
Not before the "Ressurected" tank is removed and the new OEM tank is installed.Looks like you'd better fill up that sub tank
Love seeing the progress on the 79. She’s looking amazing!
But yes... you’re overdue on giving us a Troopy update. Ha!
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Troopy work is going on.....just slowly. One step forward, 10 steps back. I spent a long time debating about whether or not it was going to be repainted after being painted. I'm not happy with the paint job. Everyone else seems to be OK with it though so they won out. Plus....my painter is busy with a 60 series that was repainted over quite a bit of rust....so that job just became a much larger job. My truck would have been back burnered for a while. So I'm just going to suck it up and deal with it.
Today we are sorting out wiring.....this is our alternator wiring. Lol.
This was the bypass to the fusible link (long ago blown I’m sure) that powered my whole harness until a week ago... par for the Omani import course.
And for what it’s worth, from the photos the Troopy paint job looks great.
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Ha...that wiring....just like ours. I'm scared of what else we will find. I do not want to put a harness in it.....we're up to our eyeballs in harnesses right now!
I have to keep telling myself that the Troopy is a shop truck....it doesn't need to be perfect...it just needs to be done. I have a knack for turning easy projects into complicated ones. Ha.
