Yes, that's how I've filled mine in the past as well. However even trying it with barely just the tip of the nozzle into the filler tube and filling at a snail's pace it was still tripping the handle every few seconds. Next time I'll try another station again, I guess it's remotely possible that I got 3 overly sensitive pumps in a row. Before I was able to hold the fuel filler pump at about half throttle with it a couple of inches shy of being fully insterted into the filler and I could go non-stop to the first click, add a little more slowly after that and at the next click it was full. I can't do that any more.
Right now at least I know my trip meter is working - My consumption is still right around 10l/100 so as long as that keeps working I can guestimate what I have left.
The only thing I had done relatively recently was my alignment after the struts and fixing that front valve cover again (a couple of weeks before the alignment. To do that I removed the rear deck lid and disconnected that wiring, but that's all working without any issues.
I think I found the 3 wire connector for the fuel sending unit attached to the firewall under the centre of the rear window. I'm going to try to run the car a bit more to use up some gas and take a reading with the volt meter to see what it says - I currently have about 60 ish kms on it since I last filled it, which was about 130 kms since my last fill the weekend before last.
I've read the gauge reads from 0-90ohms where 90 is full and 0 is empty. Does that mean I can ground the wire to the gauge when I disconnect it at the firewall to make sure the gauge is not faulty? I'm thinking if I ground it the gauge should see 0 ohms, or close to it, and it should show E.
_________________ Ryan - 86 GT
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