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kj6zd Sep 9, 2017 @ 3:16pm
Volvo VNL fuel gauges
Has anyone any idea what the second fuel gauge in the Volvo VNL dash indicates.
My guess, it is for the second fuel tank, but I had some fuel indicated on the second gauge, while the first one was empty showing and ran out of fuel.
TKS
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Hylton Trucking Sep 9, 2017 @ 3:55pm 
I'm not familiar with that truck, but my guess would be the gauge for the DEF
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Cowboy Sep 10, 2017 @ 6:23am 
The second gauge is for the ADBlue tis is to redeuse the sout particels
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Eddie Yantz Sep 10, 2017 @ 10:50am 
BTW, DEF is generic term for proprietary ADBlue. IOW, same thing.
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kj6zd Sep 10, 2017 @ 1:00pm 
Alright, so I presume, this has to do with clean emissions.
We didn't have this in the 70's so I am doumb founded. Haven't been in a truck for more than 30 years. We had two tanks, but you'd have to jump out when it ran low on one side and manually switch to the second tank. Perhaps I should do some research on the Internet, to completely understand it.
Thanks folks!!!
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Ornery Sep 10, 2017 @ 1:06pm 
Yeah it's a recent thing for sure.
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Hylton Trucking Sep 10, 2017 @ 1:20pm 
Originally posted by kj6zd:
Alright, so I presume, this has to do with clean emissions.
We didn't have this in the 70's so I am doumb founded. Haven't been in a truck for more than 30 years. We had two tanks, but you'd have to jump out when it ran low on one side and manually switch to the second tank. Perhaps I should do some research on the Internet, to completely understand it.
Thanks folks!!!
It is fairly recent. If you look at newer trucks, there is a smaller tank, ususally in front of the left fuel tank, with a blue cap on it. The is for the Diesel Exhaust Fluid (which smells like cat urine) that is supposed to help in cleaning emissions.
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Long Ago [Linux] Sep 10, 2017 @ 5:02pm 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust_fluid
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oxblood Sep 10, 2017 @ 5:09pm 
ADblue is surpose to stop emissions, just another way to get in your pocket
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kj6zd Sep 11, 2017 @ 12:40pm 
Thanks folks! I appreciate your input. Went onto the Internet and checked it out. It was just not clear to me what the second gauge would indicate.
The way I see it is that there is a Fuel Gauge (Diesel) and then the DEF gauge and they work independend from each other. The Diesel fuel could be empty while the DEF gauge still show some flued in it, depending on how much of the cat piss was injected into the emission control system.
Got it....
Thanks again!
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