Gas gauge reading sporadically or not at all
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Filled up yesterday. Good for about 50 miles and it started being squirrely for another 10 miles. It would register up and down from 3/4 to nothing and back again.
Sounds like a bad sending unit. At least I think it can be pulled with little trouble and swapped.
Thanks for the feedback guys.
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Sounds like a bad sending unit. At least I think it can be pulled with little trouble and swapped.
Thanks for the feedback guys.
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Run the tank to 1/2, and park on an exterme incline. Bet the gauge will go crazy, as it walks up/down the level sensor shaft, and find the bad spots on the shaft.
We had a van that when parked on a specific driveway, would go from 1/8 to empty (and even loose fuel pressure if too low).
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http://www.ncttora.com/fsm/1990-1995...2/troubles.pdf (pages 49 and 50).
The actual gauge is a "hot wire ammeter," so you can't really test it with a "voltage generator." It's measuring, more or less, current through the sender and the gauge combined.
That doesn't mean someone couldn't measure the voltage drop across the gauge at various fill levels. If you had that you could hook up a $4 digital panel gauge and you'd have a digital fuel level gauge. But it won't help much for diagnosing the problem in this thread.
The actual gauge is a "hot wire ammeter," so you can't really test it with a "voltage generator." It's measuring, more or less, current through the sender and the gauge combined.
That doesn't mean someone couldn't measure the voltage drop across the gauge at various fill levels. If you had that you could hook up a $4 digital panel gauge and you'd have a digital fuel level gauge. But it won't help much for diagnosing the problem in this thread.
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I have the exact problem with my truck and I have a good sending unit in my parts truck but the rust doesn't want to let it go. Any ideas how I can get it off without ruining the tank?
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mine did a similar thing. mine would work fine till a quarter tank then hold there for a while. then drop to e for like 10 seconds and then go back to a quarter and stays there to you run out of gas on the road if you dont notice the drop. I replaced the sending unit and it appears to fix the issue.
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What happens is the wiper on the float assembly eventually rubs the wire which is fine as a human hair until it breaks the wiring. Everytime I have seen it happen, it is always at the bottom of the float which makes sense as it is the part that will get the most rubbing.
May not be able to see it to well but here is an example.
May not be able to see it to well but here is an example.
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