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Title: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: Krautbucket on October 25, 2008, 02:17:31 PM

Ive got an old gas guage that I found in my VW stuff , it looks similar to an oval gas guage but has chrome outer ring that is curved on its backside to fit a curved dashboard , I've never seen one like this before . Anybody know what its off of ?

thanks for any help .

sorry the last 2 pictures are such a large file size , I dont know what happened .


http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7842/img6485xq9.jpg

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/6278/img6488hz9.jpg

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4576/img6487pn4.jpg

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: G-dog on October 25, 2008, 02:53:46 PM

I think it is a split bus gauge,

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: berliner on October 25, 2008, 03:29:15 PM

my 64 ghia has one like that

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: orangecrush on October 25, 2008, 04:09:15 PM

looks like from a ghia...

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: G-dog on October 25, 2008, 04:38:40 PM

Show's you what I know!

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: Krautbucket on October 26, 2008, 12:13:42 AM

I thought it might be a ghia guage too but all the ones I see on the samba have a flat  or flush mounting ring surface like the one below so I am still puzzled .I have seen similar guages but not any with made to fit a curved surface .


http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=584835

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: notchback on October 26, 2008, 01:01:41 AM

thats a bus guage to fit the contour of the dash

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: G-dog on October 26, 2008, 10:12:34 AM

Told Ya!! ;D

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: Krautbucket on October 26, 2008, 10:34:39 AM

Well , before I even posted this question , I did a lot of looking around to see what this guage was from , I thought a ghia or a bus too , but I believe the back side of this thing has a sharper or harder curve than a type 2 bus , and I have a link below that someone on the samba is selling bus & ghis guages as the same thing , I've looked at pictures and the bus guage sits on a fairly flat slightly curved radiused surface so I am still not positive at to what its from . does anybody have a close up of an early type 2 gas guage installed or not ? Sorry to be so annoying about this but I've looked high and low and have not seen another like this one , maybe I'm just looking in all the wrong places .

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=514423

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: buggybilly on October 26, 2008, 11:40:29 AM

LOOK AT THE BACK IT WILL BE DATED AND SAY 6V OR 12v and will have part # ON IT

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: Bruce on October 26, 2008, 12:20:22 PM

Bus.

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas gauge is from ?
Post by: Krautbucket on October 26, 2008, 01:46:04 PM

The ink date is to light to read , but it is 6 volt ,the stampings are the same as other guages I've had before , I don't see a part number per se , just a 6V 2/66 which is on most guages and a 21/18 , I guess it must be a bus gauge but all the bus gauges I have seen in the past are the same a beetle gauges .

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: vwshawn on October 26, 2008, 09:53:09 PM

Dwayne,
Look what I found*
:http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=438001

Shawn

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas gauge is from ?
Post by: Bruce on October 26, 2008, 11:25:08 PM

Quote from: Krautbucket on October 26, 2008, 01:46:04 PM

, I don't see a part number .

271 919 031B

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: Krautbucket on October 27, 2008, 10:31:35 AM

Shawn ,

that guage is similar but still does not have the same suround as mine does and that one sits flat against the dash .

Title: Re: Anybody know what this gas guage is from ?
Post by: Krautbucket on October 27, 2008, 02:17:51 PM

Well I never could find a part number on this gauge but it looks like the bus people win this debate . It does in fact appear to be a split bus fuel gauge . I found a guy selling this exact gauge on the Samba . And its the same exact part number as Bruce posted . Thanks for all the input .


http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=616012