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#89246 11/30/2004 5:10 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 265 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 265 | I decided to test my fuel gauge and sending unit before I put them back in and found that the gauge will only go up to 1/4 tank and stops but the needle is free to float when I move the gauge from left to right. Any ideas as to why it only goes up to 1/4? | | |
#89247 11/30/2004 7:44 PM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 85 Member | | Member Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 85 | sounds like the resistance is wrong, or the voltage is wrong. if you have specs on what those should be, and a multimeter, that would be the first thing to check.
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#89248 11/30/2004 11:41 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,796 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,796 | Is the gauge housing grounded? If not, and you've only got wires to and from the terminals, it will work like that. The gauge housing needs a ground wire attached if you're bench-testing it.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
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#89249 12/01/2004 12:15 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 265 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 265 | Nope, I'll try it again with a ground | | |
#89250 12/01/2004 12:35 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 265 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 265 | That was it! Works great. Thanks | | |
#89251 12/01/2004 1:27 AM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,796 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,796 | I love it when a plan comes together!  Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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