Morris Minor Owners Club

Hello. Just sorting things on my new tourer restoration. The fuel gauge doesn't work and is stuck permanently on 'full.' With this description does this seem like a gauge problem rather than a sender unit problem? Chris

obviously not something i would do but is it possible that the needle is "trapped" between the fuel gauge and the speedo, does tapping the speedo when everything turned off allow it to return to zero?

I've just had a quick look. There is power getting to the fuel gauge but on checking to see if the arm was getting snagged I noticed it just seems to be moving about with no resistance - just sort of limply hanging there. Just ordered a second hand one from ESM Minors.

Chris.

But you don't answer the question .... Does it fall back when Ign is off?

Couple of years ago my speedometer stuck at zero for a few days. Gave it a good tap,in frustration,and it's been fine ever since. No idea what made it do that but whatever...

No reason this shouldn't be a sender problem. My sender had simply become seized in the quarter of a tank position, freed it off, a little WD-40, works a treat now.

As said, whether it goes back to 0 with the ignition off is a good question!

Hi.

No, the arm doesn't move at all when the ignition is turned on/off. There is a voltage getting there so I'm confident it's the gauge itself.

Forgot to say - it was stuck on full because the arm was caught behind the arm stop on the right hand (full) side.

chrisdebois wrote:Forgot to say - it was stuck on full because the arm was caught behind the arm stop on the right hand (full) side.

........but still not working when put back in to position - so am happy the gauge is at fault itself.

It' s much more likely to be the cable to the sender or the sender itself....

The new second hand fuel gauge arrived today. Fitted and working now.

Thanks for the replies and advice. Chris.