Fuel Gauge Not working How to fix?

[Grant_West]

I pulled my dash all apart and cleaned up some wire's. I also took out my fuel tank and drained all the gas so I could remove it to re do the carpet ect. I put everything back together and The indash fuel gauge seems dead. All the wires are connected at the dash and tank whats next to check

[Rick]

RE: Fuel Gauge Not working How to fix?

Grant; I would check that one of the wires didn't get crossed. If not I would short the 2 wires from the sending unit togeather and see if the guage moves. If yes the sending unit should be replaced. If not its in the guage or wiring of the guage.

[darrel409]

RE: Fuel Gauge Not working How to fix?

MARINE FUEL SYSTEMS
COPYRIGHT 1998 TELEFLEX, INC. (USA)

1. Voltage - “I” to “G” terminal - 10 to 16 volts.
2. Test the gauge’s operation by doing the following: Connect a “hot” wire to the “I” terminal and ground wire to “G”
terminal. Take the sender (usually pink) wire off back of gauge . Gauge should read below Empty. Next, add a short
wire from the gauge’s “S” (sender) terminal to ground. Gauge should read above Full. If the pointer sweeps back
and forth, the gauge is OK.
3. The sender can be tested by checking its resistance with a volt/ohm test meter (use analog meter).
Remove sender (usually pink) wire from sender .
Connect two test meter wires to two sender terminals (or center terminal & flange if sender has only one terminal).
Move float arm by hand. Approximate values:
Empty = 240 ohms, 1/2 = 103 ohms, Full = 33 ohms.
(Not all Fuel Senders have the same resistance range. Marine units, either boat-builder installed or pur
chased at marine stores, are 240-33 ohms. Non-marine units may be 0-90 ohms, 73-10 ohms or some other
value.)
(Teleflex marine sender - rheostat housing installed upside down will cause gauge to read backwards. See
drawing on right above.)
4. Sender resistance tolerances at full may cause the gauge to read 2-3 pointer widths either side of the full mark.
5. The sender will accurately operate only one standard gauge at a time. It is not designed for dual station use with
standard gauges.
6. Fuel gauge will not operate accurately from more than one sender at a time. Some installations use a switch to
connect one gauge to various tanks, one at a time.
7. Sender will not operate in water tanks. Rheostat will become electrically “open”.
8. Be certain sender dimensions are adjusted per the instruction sheet.
9. If sender is “open” (infinite resistance), gauge will read below empty. If sender is shorted (0 resistance) gauge will
read above full.
10. Some “bowing” of the flange may occur when the 5 mounting screws are tightened. The gasket under the flange will
normally seal the flange properly, but do not over-tighten the mounting screws.
11. Sender must be grounded. No ground will cause the gauge to read empty.

[Grant_West]

My fuel gauge appear to read below empty. Item #11 on the trouble shot. Mabey the ground came off.

[Grant_West]

Ok I feel stupid. When I took my dash appart. I labled all the plugs.
I guess I mis labled the Volt meter and the fuel gauge. Im not using the stock aVolt meter so there is a extra plug hanging out. When I read the Teleflex trouble shoot I noticed that there is suposed to be a pink wire going to the Fuel gauge. I noticed that I had the wrong plug going to the Fuel gauge. Woop's

Thanks for posting the trouble shoot guide. believe it or not it helped. Thanks Again

[darrel409]

You're not the first guy to get screwed over by the "pink"! :shock: