need fuel sending unit help!!!!!!!!!!!!
03-05-2008, 10:03 PM
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need fuel sending unit help!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a 96 gt that reads over full all the time on the gas gauge I have unpluged all the sensor wires and a guy at a classics shop told me that if I unpluged them that the gauge should go to zero but it didn't also he said that if it is reading over full then there is a short somewhere I find that hard to believe but anyway how in the world do I fix it or what in the world is wrong with it please tell me that I don't have to buy the sending unit I am looking for any other possible answer that is alot cheaper then that...........
03-07-2008, 10:23 PM
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RE: need fuel sending unit help!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I am more of a fix it urself kinda guy I hate letting anyone touch my car I know what has been done to it I know how it was put on and how it was treated during its time being worked on. Thanks for the advice I will look into the float though maybe if I drop the tank again I will take the sending unit out and take a peek and see if I can fix its malfunction myself hopefully a new sending unit is way over priced and I belive that it can be fixed rather easy if anything.
03-08-2008, 05:43 AM
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RE: need fuel sending unit help!!!!!!!!!!!!
ORIGINAL: johndeeregreen
I have a 96 gt that reads over full all the time on the gas gauge I have unpluged all the sensor wires and a guy at a classics shop told me that if I unpluged them that the gauge should go to zero but it didn't also he said that if it is reading over full then there is a short somewhere I find that hard to believe but anyway how in the world do I fix it or what in the world is wrong with it please tell me that I don't have to buy the sending unit I am looking for any other possible answer that is alot cheaper then that...........
I have a 96 gt that reads over full all the time on the gas gauge I have unpluged all the sensor wires and a guy at a classics shop told me that if I unpluged them that the gauge should go to zero but it didn't also he said that if it is reading over full then there is a short somewhere I find that hard to believe but anyway how in the world do I fix it or what in the world is wrong with it please tell me that I don't have to buy the sending unit I am looking for any other possible answer that is alot cheaper then that...........
"DC dies and AC lies"
What that means is when power isnt connected to the instruments they will fool you. I would find the wires in the plug to the feul gauge and measure the ohms from the sender. I would then ohm it with the tank at full to see what the reading is. This would tell you if the sender is working anyway.
03-08-2008, 11:14 PM
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RE: need fuel sending unit help!!!!!!!!!!!!
very nice way of putting it I too was in the millitary and there is a saying also there no matter how much you work on it and how pissed you get at it its always gonna be the same piece of SH** it was when you started and when you go back to working on it! "I was on the kennedy" if ya can't tell..... thanks for the input man I will do that when I get a chance were the tornado's leave us all alone and stop raising hell. I will definetly do that
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