Can someone help me i was driving tonight and my gas gauge quit. I need help what is wrong. Thank you
2006-08-18 16:25:20 · 9 answers · asked by hmvann 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
First you have to find out if it is the gauge or not. Might be power to it, or the the switch in the fuel tank might be bad. Best to let someone that knows how fix it :)
2006-08-18 16:31:47 · answer #1 · answered by ray56_32223 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have a tailight out or a tailight fuse out. In many pre-computer everything cars, the tailight circuit is intentionally wired to the instrumentation cluster. Hence, if you are driving at night and an instrument, such as a fuel guage dies, it may be indicative of a tailight out. Otherwise how would you know a tailight is out? This is a clever way to avoid having complex circuitry to tell you that you actually have a tailight out, something not available in 1979.
Check all your fuses and lights first before messing around with the fuel sender. Also, check to see that you have gas. Maybe your fuel guage is working, but you have little to no gas left, so the guage looks like it is out.
2006-08-18 17:50:21 · answer #2 · answered by x 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have usually a few good answers to your problem on is you may have a bad ground on your sending unit at the gas tank........number 2 your float in your gas tank may be stuck. in this case to fix it make you have at least a half a tank of gas...Take a good size hammer and wrap it good with a rag then get underneath it and with the flat side of the hammer hit it hard this may free the float...check your fuse first before this other stuff..your float could be water logged..with gas no hope you will need to pull the tank Giant Hassel good luck Mr Big
2006-08-18 16:45:33 · answer #3 · answered by bullsweat007@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could be a bad ground or float sending unit. set the trip odometer get gas every 300 miles
2006-08-18 16:37:54 · answer #4 · answered by mike L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At that age & type, I'd point to either the float transducer or a failed gauge.
Either way, it's not a job for an inexperienced person to try.
2006-08-18 16:31:40 · answer #5 · answered by mnm75932 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ill tell you what to try!does your car have a steel gas tank?if it does.run a piece of covered wire from the lip of the tank to the frame or body.it sounds to me like you lost your ground.i had a dodge coronet that did that and that is what i did...hope this helps you.
2006-08-18 16:44:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
could be the sending unit, bad float in the tank, or your gauge could have died.
2006-08-18 16:31:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check wire connections possible bad ground .
2006-08-18 17:37:39 · answer #8 · answered by renov8ter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe its junk!
2006-08-18 16:35:21 · answer #9 · answered by Jeff2smart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋