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fuel senders

Post by Ricky-410 » Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:46 pm

I need to swap tanks in my 410 but can only get hold of sammy one's. The fuel level sensor on mine only has one wire to it but the samurai one looks to have 3 ( think ones snapped ). Can you still just put the one wire on for the gauge? I'm guessing the other 2 are for a warning light? Also wil there be a difference between the Spanish and the Japanese setups?

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Re: fuel senders

Post by turbo-tom » Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:51 pm

warning light? nah mate no suzuki had a luxury of one of them!
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Re: fuel senders

Post by Ricky-410 » Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:59 pm

We looked on my mates sammy dash and he said there was one there? But he has a different tank in the back so je didnt know of it worked. Now I'm really confused then!

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Re: fuel senders

Post by turbo-tom » Tue Aug 20, 2013 12:02 am

well eat my pet fish and call me jesus... i have never even seen one with one fitted let alone new about it! my apologies mate! :D

http://www.suzukiclubuk.co.uk/diy/21-mi ... uel-sender

saying that i still dont know if it would work my bet is get a sammy sender unit plug your gauge on it and move the sender to see if there gauge goes up and down ;)
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Re: fuel senders

Post by Jordi » Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:44 am

Jap samurai tank is the same. Just one wire.

Spanish tanks use a completely different sender.
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Re: fuel senders

Post by Ladaman » Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:18 am

Maybe the three wire one is for a fuel injection version. I'm sure there are three wires on the Ignis one in mine. The others are for the built in fuel pump.
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Re: fuel senders

Post by ScottieJ » Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:39 am

If you can find a Japanese tank it should come with a one wire sender, Ive never managed to get a Spanish 3 wire sender to work in a jap SJ
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Re: fuel senders

Post by ROBBIE » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:03 am

Spanish Sammi had a warning light
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Re: fuel senders

Post by turbo-tom » Tue Aug 20, 2013 11:11 am

ROBBIE wrote:Spanish Sammi had a warning light

out of interest what does the symbol look like?
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Re: fuel senders

Post by ROBBIE » Tue Aug 20, 2013 11:27 am

turbo-tom wrote:
ROBBIE wrote:Spanish Sammi had a warning light

out of interest what does the symbol look like?
Orange round light in the fuel gauge
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