The Peerless & Warwick Discussion Forum

Yes - good stuff Gary.  Great to see some progress.  The rest of the mag
is brilliant too (as usual).

It looks like the tank senders are a bit sick though!  Is the gauge
still working OK? (remember it needs the body to be earthed, not
shown on the circuit diagram, or it might burn out).  Of course,
With two tanks you can manage without a fuel gauge if you have to.

The replacement TR3 "moving coil" senders have the resistive part 
above the tank, which is where the sill covers (and the door)
needs to be, so they won't fit.  See www.holden.co.uk part 070.239 

Fear not....

A determined Peerless owner can modify a Lucas sender
Holden part No 070.011 (which does fit under the sill, just
shorten the arm so it doesn't hit the tank baffle)
and then transfer the front glass, bezel and intrument face
of the original moving coil instrument onto a Lucas mechanism
Holden part 070.010.  You have to file the little curved slot
out a bit, and the needle is too wide, but only a really picky
observer will notice.  If the original gauge is shot, this is
cheaper than getting a moving coil instrument fixed as a bonus
and the illumination is internal and therefore brighter. 

I wouldn't gaurantee the calibration, but will say full/empty and
move about in sympathy in-between.  You'll need a TR4 pattern
voltage stabiliser as well.

But you'll probably have already fitted one of those when you
did a similar "face transplant" on a TR4 electrical temperature
gauge, to save spending TWO HUNDRED notes on a replacement
capillary temperature gauge.  That's serious beer money!

Now get some fuel into them tanks, only 9 months to go!

FF