Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum

General Category => Henry J & Allstate Forum => Topic started by: Quadromaniac on June 26, 2015, 05:09:35 PM

Title: Gas gauge
Post by: Quadromaniac on June 26, 2015, 05:09:35 PM

The gas gauge worked when I first got the car, Allstate, Now it reads empty all the time. I checked the connection at the tank and at the gauge with a test light and the light pulses on the tester with the key turned on. Is this normal. Could it be the sending unit or the gauge?

Title: Re: Gas gauge
Post by: kaiserfrazerlibrary on June 26, 2015, 08:30:15 PM

If your float in the tank has deteriorated it may have "sunk".

Title: Re: Gas gauge
Post by: jake on June 26, 2015, 09:09:54 PM

The one I had was full of gas in the float... I got a new one and It has a grounding issue now...

It is for a 1954 Kaiser D..  same tank...

Title: Re: Gas gauge
Post by: darrin502 on July 15, 2015, 02:36:19 PM

If you ground the sender wire at the tank the gage needle should go to full if it dose it is the float unit.

Title: Re: Gas gauge
Post by: Corsairdeluxe on July 15, 2015, 03:40:10 PM

Before you replace the float unit, run a wire from one of the screws mounting the unit to the tank to a good tested ground. Sometimes ,over time ,the unit fails to ground through the tank.