Banjo

Hummm ! That's interesting. A couple of weeks ago I had to race down to Sydney in a hurry at short notice for a funeral. I left early in the morning and got there for the funeral at 11:00am. Went to the wake, got back in the car & was back in Brisbane before midnight. Now if I had the good Japanese Dr's 400 kph bullet I could be in Sydney in about 2.5 hours. Could have stayed at the wake a little longer. I'd love to see the face of that "police officer" who hides in the bushes just south of Macksville, when I go by at 400 kph. By the time he got his "Foulcan started", I would be in Port Macquarie. Hummm. Think I'll order one of them, for delivery 2040 !

Has anyone come across this site before & seen what this guy is doing to a Morris Minor ute ? http://members.iinet.net.au/~kustomb/lcv%2...top%20perry.htm It's a good read. I love the Toyota Coaster Bus floor heater. Also the 200 km/hr speedo in the middle of the dash. Fook; you thought you didn't have much room between back of your engine & firewall. This guys has had to cut the fire wall out, but the front of the 5K seems to be where the radiator should go. Don't know where the raditor will go. I guess at 200 km/hr he'll just get force cooling over the outside of the engine. Fill up the 5K blocks water chambers with Araldite. :thumbsup: I once saw a Morris Minor sedan with a Holden straight six in it. Drivers seat was where the back seat would normally be.

If your mate had to "bash" the dashboard to make the fuel guage work it is probably not the sender unit that is faulty, which is in the tank. More than likely it is the connections at the back of the console. If your mates temp guage also is playing up, it will be the connections to the little regulator that are intermittent. The 10V regulator supplies power to both the fuel guage & temp guage. It is very easy to test the fuel guage circuit. Pull the single/spade terminal lead off the top of tank & ground. If the fuel guage moves up to "full" then the guage is OK, and the fault will be in the sender unit itself. The tank is not very hard to remove. Just make sure it ain't got too much juice left in it.

Not long fixed my non working fuel & temperature guage. It was that little 10 volt regulator on the back of the console. Now the fuel guage has gone again. Temp still working. The float had a crack in it and sunk ! Replaced that with a spare I had but it only worked for a week. Now it's reading constantly low. I have had it out last week, and time has taken it's toll on the simple slide resistor arrangement. As I had this problem in a previous KE55 I guess it is quite common at age 25 yrs. As new sender units are as rare as dinosaurs, and even if you could get one would probably cost a kings ransome, I was wondering if others have had this problem and how they have solved it (don't say a long stick) Is there any later model Toyota fuel tank sender unit that is commonly available that anyone has adapted to the KE55 tank arrangement ? Most interested in any comments re above. Thanks !