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06-12-08, 23:04
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No Keith the tank only has one fuel outlet.
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07-12-08, 00:59
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Reason?
No logical explanation by anyone I've spoken to. It doesn't seem to make sense.
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07-12-08, 03:48
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No John ..I'm not calling you a 'dip stick'.. that's what the second fitting is for.
It seems to be peculiar fitting to the Aust. sigs vans . You poke in a length of calibrated rectagular shaped masonite looking stuff .. its marked in gallons . Ive got one marked '12 cwt coupe ute' .. you can see the shaped hole in your pic .. for the dip stick. thats my theory anyway ... Mike
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07-12-08, 05:37
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07-12-08, 11:43
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Dip sticks for signal vans
John , Mike , Keith
From what I have seen of signal van ( aust ) fuel tanks they all appear to have provision for dip sticks . I have not been able to find out why these models have it where as others do not . On the one's I have were fitted with a PTO off the transmisson which may have driven a generator while parked up , there must have been a reason to measure the fuel in the tanks manually rather than use the gauge. Perhaps the floats did not follow the fuel level down if the engine was using fuel but the vehicle not moving and no road viabration .
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07-12-08, 20:15
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Another guess would be that fuel from the tanks could also have powered a seperate generator as well and the dipstick was used to measure fuel use so that the ignition did not have to be turned on to view the fuel guage.
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08-12-08, 00:00
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As far as I know, they never fitted the gearbox PTO generator to the trucks.. it definately was originally intended to be there .. but for some unknown reason, they decided not to go ahead with it ... documenatary evidence has revealed the generator model they were intending to fit . Instead, they used a stand alone Briggs and Stratton petrol gene.. Cliffs idea could be right ..that dip stick fitting has got to be connected with the gene somehow. Have you found the correct distilled water container yet... ? We are looking for one - it is listed in the stowage diagram . This weekend, I'll be doing some measuring of the sigs van battery mount frame - during our club XMAS breakup at Narre Warren... there is a wreck out back with the internal wireless battery fittings still fitted . A fully kitted out van in Adelaide, has the working wireless sets ... the AT5/AR8 etc. Mike
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Hi Mike
I have very little in the way of fittings for inside the van section , as it is going on Lang's Normandy trip I have left the rear so we can sleep in it .
Would appreciate any pictures of fittings etc as you come across them . Regards Jim S.
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