Matt Dralle
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 Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 7:45 am Post subject: capacitive fuel probes (was: engine loping) |
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At 07:26 AM 5/23/2010 Sunday, you wrote:
| Quote: | All I have to do to be ready for my DAR inspection is to calibrate my capacitive fuel probes.
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Hi Tom,
Which capacitive fuel probes do you have? I have the Princeton units that GRT sells and haven't been able to even come close to getting them calibrated. Actually, they went through the calibration fine (5 set points), but the readings are completely erroneous. Sometimes they read full when the tanks are 1/2 empty. Sometimes they read empty when the tanks are full. Sometimes they read, well, whatever; usually not the actual amount of fuel. They are completely useless. I've talked with Princeton, and they've offered no suggestions.
I'm not sure what to do at this point. Replacing the senders will likely require removing the tanks which is no small job on the -7 and -8. Ack, this sucks. I sure wish I'd just used the S&W float senders from Van's now.
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