Topic: accurately setting my gas gauge

I recently purchased a 06 P4 with Smart Craft gauges. I have been trying to get the gauges to accurately reflect the gas used/gas left when operating. My dealer told me that I had to fill the tanks up in quaters (while at the pump) and set the digital guage each time I put in a 1/4 amount of gas...(figuring this amount out by taking the totally capacity and dividing by 4), put in a 1/4 set the gauage at 25% full, than 1/2 full set the guage at 50%, than 3/4 full and so on untill 100% full for the guage to accurately reflect what is trulely left in the tanks. Not much mention of that in the smart craft guide I have. Are you guys familiar with this process or does this sound strange?? Not wanting to run out of gas!!! Thanks for the help in advance

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June 9, 2006 at 3:48 am #468478

Bass Cat Boats
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Since you said “TANKS” we assum eyou have saddle tanks on your P4.

On saddle tanks features, you use the standard setting to factory defaults in percentages.

The WEMA sender in the 2006 is a very accurate sending unit, and it should be fairly close.

If you set the levels, the gallons will not work on the gauge so leave it on 0 (zero) for gallons.

BCB

June 9, 2006 at 4:09 am #468479

dabone70
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Yes I do have saddle tanks but normally just use the main tank (turned to L at the back of the boat). So to accurately set the guage do I fill the boat up and press factory defaults/reset on the guage or should the factory default just accurately read whatever is in the tank from the first time it is filled????

I apologize just still a little confused, due to all the other info I got from the dealer.

Look forward to the help

matt

June 9, 2006 at 8:32 pm #468480

Bass Cat Boats
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Just set the gauge to factory defaults and you should be good to go.

Because you are dealing with two different volumes of fuel, the percentages are not going to work properly.

Once you have time in your boat, you can reset your levels to a more satisfactory level, though do not change the percentages over to gallons.

The Gallons reading only works on the Cougar FTD models.

If your two tanks seem to prefer one tanks reading over the other, we do not suspect it is a level issue, more of an issue relating to the height of the two tanks being different.

This could be adjusted at various levels to match your preferences after you understand which tanks style you like, or don’t like. Then if you don’t like it, you can return to the default settings.

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