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#99648 02/27/2007 3:07 AM | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 2 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 2 | Gas gauge not working? All other gauges work fine. Tank is 1/2 full, but gauge shown empty? Any ideas? | | |
#99649 02/27/2007 3:19 AM | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 22 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 22 | Have you checked the sending unit, make sure you have no brakes in your wire, just take the sender out, put a meter on the sender both terminals move the float up and down and if it reads check the wires, if the wires are'nt bad check the gauge. But I would check the sender or the wires first. check the wires with a meter with the ohms setting. good luck
if its not broke....you didn't drive it hard enough!
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#99650 02/27/2007 3:20 AM | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 323 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2005 Posts: 323 | Your float might not raise all the way to the top. Some times they get a pin hole leak. Mine reads MT with the key off and full with the key on. I ran new wiring but I think it's the sending unit. | | |
#99651 02/27/2007 5:49 AM | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 184 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 184 | Float, sender wires and proper ground are all the keys. I had mine changed from the original about two years back. It did the same thing yours did. The sending wires were shot, the float was no longer. Now it almost reads right.
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#99652 02/27/2007 7:43 AM | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 266 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 266 | I had issues with mine too. First the float sank, then the wiring died, then the sending unit itself died. Having good connections all the way around make a big difference. Now that the entire system is new, everything reads like it should. | | |
#99653 02/27/2007 7:46 AM | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 | You can test the guage by removing the sender wire at the tank (the one that goes to the guage, not the ground wire). With the wire "hangin' in the breeze and the key "on" the guage should read "full". Ground the wire, and the guage should show "empty". | | |
#99654 02/28/2007 2:09 AM | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 23 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 23 | My gas gauge is broken too. Appreciate the chatter and have copied your messages so this week I can test it. I had it at the speedometer shop and those guys fixed the speedometer, but shrugged their shoulders when it came to the gas gauge. Thanks,
Bob K | | |
#99655 02/28/2007 5:31 AM | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 22 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 22 | if they could fix the speedo why cant they fix the gas I dont think it is much different
if its not broke....you didn't drive it hard enough!
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#99656 02/28/2007 5:55 AM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | bigjon66, I would classify the speedometer as a mechanical device and the fuel gauge as a electric, or electrical device. Your mechanic wouldn't wire your house and your electrician wouldn't rebuild your transmission.  Stuart | | |
#99658 03/01/2007 12:33 AM | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,464 | Hey Tim; Welcome to the 'bolt by the way. You're doing a great job with that truck!! | | |
#99659 03/04/2007 6:44 PM | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 83 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 83 | | | |
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