Ok got up this morning and back to it again. I removed the sender from the tank and hooked up my ohms gauge and with float in hand, the full sweep went 1 to 33 ohms. With the sender unit still out of the tank I hooked up the sender wire. I hooked up the flange ground to the negative side of the battery for good ground. I did another manual full hand sweep to see if the gauge would respond to the empty to full range reading as it is designed to do and it would not. I turned the cluster over and peered through the light socket hole and read the words 12v on the gas gauge so I am sure a runtz is not needed here. Should I have any continuity between the sender post and the hot post on the back of the gauge as it is reading 33 ohm out of the dash.