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[mattj64]

We have a fuel gauge problem on a 1990 mini flame. Tested the sender and resistance which vaies when the car is rocked so the sender is OK. Tested continuity through the wiring right back to the gauge and this is OK. tried connecting both wires on the sender but stll the gauge is dead. Now i guess its the voltage stabaliser but i cant find it!!!! . The car has 3 clocks and one incorporates the water temp and fuel gauge. The water temp gauge works ok but i just cant seem to find a stabaliser unit, does anyone know where it is hidden.
By the way, put a 1275 in at the week end and its awesome.
all replies gladly recieved as always.

Cheers

MattJ64
(Jamie1991's personel mechanic)

[jayare]

Does the temp gauge work? They are both supplied through the voltage stabiliser so if that works, the stabiliser is OK and the fuel gauge is likely to be faulty. On the Nippon Seiki clocks which are likely to be fitted to a 1990 car have the voltage stabiliser built into the gauges as a solid state device rather than the separate one on the Smiths clocks,

JR

[dklawson]

JR has pointed you in the right direction.

The only minor correction I want to bring up here regards the Nippon-Seiki stabilizer. In a recent thread here a board member posted pictures of his gauges. Those pictures showed that the Nippon-Seiki stabilizer is still electro-mechanical and it's built into one of the two gauges.

[jayare]

As the saying goes - you learn something new every day! I've not had the chance to dig into the back of a set of Nippon clocks so was going on what I'd found from t'interweb,

JR

[dklawson]

I believed the same as you until the pictures were posted. I forget who it was, but a guy with the later gauges was trying to troubleshoot a gauge problem and posted pictures so we could show him where the solid state stabilizer was buried in the cluster. Instead, what we noticed were the "exposed" components that make up an electro-mechanical stabilizer built into one of his two gauge. I should have saved the pictures or bookmarked the thread for later reference but I didn't. Regardless, I was very surprised to see the NS gauges had an electro-mechanical stabilizer after what I'd been told on this and other forums.