Gas Guage Problems
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Mountain Pass
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Gas Guage Problems
Twice now in the last 2 years and in the last 15k my gas gauge showed about 1/8 of a tank and approx. 65 miles on the lie-o-meter and truck ran out of fuel. Of course always happens at the worst times and places. Does anyone know of a common problem. May pull the tank and look at the sending unit in hopes to see something obvious hanging it up but thought I'd check here before getting carried away.
Mountain Pass
Joined: Jul 2003
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From: South Jersey
I have had the same problem. Mine hung up at a little more than a quarter of a tank. Ater that one time of running out of fuel I started wacthing my Trip Meter more closely and filling up sooner. After having the gauge stick at the same place 3 times I special ordered a new one (300.00 +) from an on-line Ford Dealer. Within two days the gauge started back working correctly. I did a "Hutch Mod" to the new one and Installed it anyway. In looking over the sender I removed I didn't see any obvious cause, it may have a small piece of dirt temporally stuck on the potenometer. Also you can test the Dash Gauge by introducing a know resistor load the gauge I forget the values of the test resistors but they are in the Ford Service Manuals.
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