how to get the binnacle out?

[Andy B]

Saloons and estates are different...

are they? what's the difference? ...... I believe you 

though I'm sure the wrong one would work enough to prove the point. I swapped over dash binnacles from a petrol & diseasal Astra to prove something .... the diseasal dash worked in the petrol enough to prove the diseasal speedo sender was fubar'd

[MonzaGSE]

94 and early 95 are different from later cars. They have different range for the fuel gauge. These early instruments are easy to identify as they have 5km intervalls on the speedo vs 10 on later cars. Also they have 250 rpm intervalls on rpm vs 500 on later models.

[Doctor Gollum]

Fuel gauge is calibrated due to different shaped tanks... saloon tanks are an even depth whereas in estates the sender is effectively mounted below the top of the tank... ergo a saloon gauge in an estate will always under read, but vice versa and you run out of fuel at a 1/4 tank

[Viral_Jim]

Fuel gauge is calibrated due to different shaped tanks... saloon tanks are an even depth whereas in estates the sender is effectively mounted below the top of the tank... ergo a saloon gauge in an estate will always under read, but vice versa and you run out of fuel at a 1/4 tank

That's either some serious in-depth knowledge, or the result of a long walk with a petrol can!

[Doctor Gollum]

It might be tother way around tbh, but gauge misreads enough to make a difference... Net result was a dead fuel pump and a tow home iirc... Had fuelled the car at first sign of missing, but clearly not soon enough

Estates are fussy enough about fuel level without the added lottery

[TheBoy]

There are differences. For example, there are something like 16 different versions for PFL. MFL and FL is much better, due to being programmable.

[TheBoy]

As for how to remove....

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90618.0