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Topic: dont think i want to know the answer to this question but what the heck.
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capri man
Gearhead Posts: 8777
From: doerun, ga.
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-28-2006 10:18 AM
 
1983 ltd wagon. fuel guage does not work at all. at least that was what i thought. i just noticed that when i turn the ign. on the guage will move just enough to notice but still stay on the empty mark. with the ign. off, it is a little below the mark. what is wrong??------------------
mike r
racing is real
everything else is just a game.
81 capri-302-7.25 @93mph 1/8
1.54 60ft 50 % of the fun dragracing is meeting people who will give you the shirt off their back to wipe the grease off your hands.
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capri man
Gearhead Posts: 8777
From: doerun, ga.
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-28-2006 10:19 AM
and yes alex, i do have gas in it!!!  ------------------
mike r
racing is real
everything else is just a game.
81 capri-302-7.25 @93mph 1/8
1.54 60ft 50 % of the fun dragracing is meeting people who will give you the shirt off their back to wipe the grease off your hands.
M&M member #839 http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/mike470/adel2.jpg
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Bloose
Gearhead Posts: 888
From: Milwaukee, WI
Registered: Dec 2001
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posted 04-30-2006 07:19 PM
Bad sending unit? Or possibly bad ground?B
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TomP
Gearhead Posts: 6376
From: Delta BC Canada
Registered: Dec 99
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posted 05-03-2006 01:03 AM
Do you have less than twenty bucks worth of gas... nowadays that won't make the guage move.
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Whitson
Gearhead Posts: 290
From: Western Canada
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 05-03-2006 10:03 AM
Pull the wire off your sending unit and ground it. Turn the ignition on. If the gauge swings full scale to full, you need a sender. If it doesn't move, you have a break in the wire or a printed circut/gauge problem.
If you can't get to the wire to remove it from the sender, just probe it with your test light and ground the probe.
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Tom G
Gearhead Posts: 1069
From: Bethlehem, Pa USA
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-10-2006 06:03 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Whitson:
Pull the wire off your sending unit and ground it. Turn the ignition on. If the gauge swings full scale to full, you need a sender. If it doesn't move, you have a break in the wire or a printed circut/gauge problem.
If you can't get to the wire to remove it from the sender, just probe it with your test light and ground the probe.
DITTO! that would be my first troubleshooting step. ------------------
67 Mustang F/B 302 GT-40X FMS engine RPM Air Gap 650 Holley DP Crane 1.7 roller rockers, Performer Nitrous, ceramic headers WC T5, cable clutch MagnaFlow SS kit W/X Pipe 3.89 9". SSBC 4 piston frdisc Clearwater Aqua, Vintage 40 series 16X8 215 front 255/50 drag radials 308 RWHP@5800rpm 300 tq NA 385rwhp 380 w 75 shot 13.11 @111mph
88 GT (FiveOfastback's ride)347 forged internal Twisted wedge Comp 274 HR Track Heat, BBK headers X pipe Gforce ? RWHP ? RWTQ Red and Silver New Project 69 Boss 302 Acapulco Blue
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Dubz
Gearhead Posts: 2005
From: Manitoba Canada
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 08-15-2006 01:16 PM
I had the float come off of the sending unit on my torino, did the exact same thing.
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