[DeTomaso] Two dumb techno questions

[Asa Jay Laughton]

My guess is corrosion on the sender.  Run a few tanks through and see if 
it clears up.  If not, pull the sender and run the sender arm up and 
down while applying some contact cleaner.

I'd replace the starter.  Sounds like a classic overheating problem in 
the stock design.  Put one of the newer reduction gear started on it, 
after all, the other one is 10 years old now.

:)
Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
    
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Charles Engles wrote:
> Dear Forum,
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>                I have two dumb problems to deal with.
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>               1) Bad fuel gauge problem.    The car has been sitting for three (!) years during an engine build with the tank drained.   Now that it is up and running the gauge has gone wonky.  It either reads empty or flashes back and forth from full to empty erratically.  
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>                   Is the gauge terminal?  
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>               2)  Bad starter problem.    The other car has a West Coast Starter (San Diego) circa 1997.   It always starts up at the first start of the day, but any re-start after that is a painfully slow "whrrr-pause-whrrrrrrr-pause-whrrr-pause-whrrr" etc. lasting a painful 10-20 secs before it starts.   Today, I came in from an errand and turned the car off and then immediately tried to re-start it.   Same thing.   
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>                  Is the starter bad?   It doesn't seem to be the battery.   This problem has been getting incrementally worse over the last year.  
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>                                 If its not one thing-----its another,   Chuck Engles   
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