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Quadromaniac

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Gas gauge
« 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?
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Re: Gas gauge
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2015, 08:30:15 PM »
If your float in the tank has deteriorated it may have "sunk".
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Re: Gas gauge
« Reply #2 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...
« Last Edit: June 27, 2015, 12:01:36 AM by jake »
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Re: Gas gauge
« Reply #3 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.
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Re: Gas gauge
« Reply #4 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.
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