Fuel dip stick gauges?

[crbnunit]

I just got the universal Fuelhawk, marked it as I filled the empty tanks, chucked it up in the lathe, turned new marks at the appropriate levels, filled the new marks with epoxy paint and viola! A custom fuel guage! Doesn't work well with gloves in the winter!

[andy]

I don't remember if the new Fuelhawk has something to prevent it from being dropped into the tank, but it took me about 3 hours to get an old one out after doing that with numb hands in the winter. I've switched to a longer wooden dowel.

[gear]

Left tank on one side of stick invert and right side on the other. TD

Tom - is there a difference between the left and right tanks??

garth

[TomD]

Tom - is there a difference between the left and right tanks??

There shouldn't be but being a bit anal about these things I figured it would not hurt to mark them differently.

I just flip the stick over from the left to right.

It also makes it easier to read if the stick is still wet w/ fuel from the previous tank.

Tom

[Tomkatz]

I just used a square dowel. One side White (main), back side Red (reserve) two other sides flat black to make it easy to read. Filled tanks one gal. at a time and took measurements with a ruler. Marked the sticks and printed the measurement in my checklist just in case I'm ever without a stick. I can easily find a ruler or tape.

Just what worked for me.

[Kirk]

Marked the sticks and printed the measurement in my checklist just in case I'm ever without a stick. I can easily find a ruler or tape.

Just what worked for me.

Good thinking! I think I'll add that bit of info into my ever growing book.

Kirk