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Triumph TR3 - Fuel gauge

Aloha,

I recently bought an early TR3A (TS22567L). The fuel gauge on the car is obviously not original, and I'd like to replace it with a proper one. Over the last month or so I've seen at least three gauges for sale that have been described as "correct" for this car, but each gauge has had a different part number on the face. This has left me a bit confused. Does anyone out there know what the proper part number would be for this car?

Thanks,

Bob Russell
R. S. Russell

Aloha Bob,

The TR parts book specifies Petrol Gauge #106964 for all years. The unit on my 1960 TR3A (TS67947L) is a Jaeger with convex glass front.

Bill Stagg
Bill Stagg

Aloha Bill,

Thanks for your quick response. However, the number I'm looking for is not the TR part number but the Jaeger part number, which is written along the upper top edge of the face of the gauge (at least on the gauges I've seen). Does your gauge have anything written there?

Thanks again,

Bob Russell
R. S. Russell

Aloha Bob,

My 1960 TR3 A has a Jaeger fuel gauge with FG 430/20 on the top of it.

I hope this helps.

John Triska
John Triska

Aloha, Bob:
I have a 1956 TR3 w/ a Jaeger which has the following on the face: X.49422/220 PG.183
No fooling, that's what's on there. It also has a red & green color stripe along the bottom where the graduations are as does the oil pressuer gauge.
I don't know if mine are original, but I suspect not.

3 of the 4 subsidiary gauges should be Jaeger's w/ convex domes; the ammeter being Lucas w/ a slightly less convex dome and a shallower instrument body.

Best of luck -

Mike G.
Mike Gambordella

Aloha, again, Bob...

Sorry about the mix up. I've got an FG2530/20 Jaeger on my '60 TR3A, but it's a replacement gauge I secured last winter through Fred Thomas. Looks great, works fine and fits the motif.

Enjoy,

Bill
Bill Stagg

I concur with FG 2530/20. Looks original. You know, I never even looked at that number before. Ammeter had none.
Tom

Thanks for everyone's responses. One of the gauges I'm looking at now has FG2530/20 across the top; that's the one I'll go with. BTW, who is Fred Thomas? A member, or a parts dealer? Please excuse my ignorance - I'm new here.

Bob Russell
R. S. Russell

My fuel gauge reads, in tiny white letters and numerals along the top curve of the black panel :-

X.49422/220. PG.162

Abd just below that is printed in white :-

12V This is partly hidden behind the needle just below where it comes out.

My 1958 TR3A (TS 27489 LO) was built in Feb, 1958 and ia a little newer than yours.

My gauge is the original because I bought TRusty brand new and still have it.

Don Elliott, Original Owner, 1958 TR3A
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/trebor/don3a_big.JPG (taken on a 2520 miles trip to Colorado and home for VTR National Convention)
Don Elliott

I have long envied that photo of you and TRusty at Hoosier Pass, Don. What a great trip that must have been. Question: What adjustments did you make to the carburetion to run uphill at 11,000 feet? And was there any "snap" left in old TRusty?

Bill Stagg
1960 TR3A (Garaged in the Hoosier state)
Bill Stagg

At 5000 ft in Loveland, I leaned out the carbs by two (2) flats upwards. It ran fine at 12,095 ft at the highest point through Estes Pass. I was suffering from lack of oxygen. It took me about 4 or 5 days to get re-adjusted to the lack of oxygen in the mountain air. Did you know that they call it mountain sickness ?

At 10,000 ft, there is less air, less oxygen, less "snap". But who can tell ?

Too bad for the guys with Webers. They are so complex, they need to be re-built and needles changed every 3,000 ft or 4,000 ft altitude change.

When I got back to Boulder, I cranked the carbs richer again by 2 flats of the brass hexagon nut.

The year before I drove 7220 miles to VTR in Portland Oregon.

Don
Don Elliott

My oil pressure guage has X.80516 or something similar. Always a new mystery. I kinda thought they'd all be FG for fuel gauge. X was what I assumed to stand for pressure. So much for logic.
Tom

Don:
Since I consider you to be the TR guru (no mountain climbing involved) this side of the Atlantic, Do you know what these gauge numbers signify?

I notice yours and mine have longer numbers than others with additional letters/numbers.
Bill Piggot's Original TR book doesn't make any distinctions or provide any running history.

Just curious...
Thanks,
Mike

BTW, the size of a drop is proportional to it's bucket.
Mike Gambordella

Sorry Mike - I have no idea.

Don
Don Elliott

This thread was discussed between 17/08/2004 and 19/08/2004

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