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Old Aug 5, 2017 | 01:06 PM
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Fuel guage not working

So I have been driving the truck for years without a working guage. I think it's time do fix it. Based on other threads I have tried grounding the wire at the sensing unit and the guage goes to full. I pulled the sending unit and could not get a consistent reading. I am assuming the unit is bad. If the truck is a 49 F3 converted to 12V with the original guage which sending unit should i use. I have seen references to 6V and 12V.
 
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Here's the answer I was going to give but thought I'd google it first.
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