Author Topic: Fuel sending unit  (Read 9885 times)

Offline Scatterbrain

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Re: Fuel sending unit
« Reply #60 on: March 27, 2010 - 10:45:13 AM »
I went through an exercise in this whole fuel sender stuff about 2 years ago.  My gauge always read "Empty" so I would always just keep it topped off.  I ordered one off of Rockauto and this time it wouldn't read past 1/4 tank even when full.  First thing I tried was running a new wire from the gauge to the sender and a new ground line and it worked.  It wasn't adjustment, a bad sender or a bad gauge (it is the original), just poor wiring.  Maybe I just got lucky.

Worked even better than my 99 Formula's gauge, when that sucker read 1/4 tank you had better be in sight of a gas station cuz it was going to be empty very soon.