Fuel level sending unit
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Yeah, it may not be. I even checked Millenium Ford earlier and could not find it listed. I know you can get it but I'd hate to send you to the dealer. Anyone else? Stand By.
Here is a pic of the float and sending unit minus the pickup foot and mixing chamber. Yes, that is what currently resides inside my tank. More to follow.
Here is a pic of the float and sending unit minus the pickup foot and mixing chamber. Yes, that is what currently resides inside my tank. More to follow.
Last edited by Tenn01PSD350; Dec 19, 2006 at 10:54 PM.
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From: Central, Al
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Testing the gauge itsself takes a special tool, or a couple of resistors valued at 15 and 160 ohms.
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Understood Alan. Just wondering what he is seeing so I can file it away for future forgetting.
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Well it's kinda hard to troubleshoot it since I'm in Kuwait. But the wife says that it will show 1/4 tank and just die, the light won't come on or anything. She will add some fuel to it and it will start right up. So that sounds to me like the sending unit.
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Rusty, thanks for your service and stay safe. I doubt the problem resides in the sending unit. Nonetheless. When the truck gets down to near 1/4 tank, have her fill it up and see how much it takes. Eg: 39 gal tank around 1/4 full ought to take about gee something like 28-30 gals. Anything over 32 and I would suspect a sending unit or gauge problem but I suspect something else is afoot here.
Edit: didn't mean to be mysterious or anything, I suspect you have a fuel supply problem that gets exacerbated when the tank gets lower. If this is the case, it is something sensitive to lower pressure at the pickup foot. Among the items that come to mind are clogged pickup/strainer and a possible pump heading south but we are way ahead of ourselves until we determine that indeed the truck gauge/sender is not faulty.
Edit: didn't mean to be mysterious or anything, I suspect you have a fuel supply problem that gets exacerbated when the tank gets lower. If this is the case, it is something sensitive to lower pressure at the pickup foot. Among the items that come to mind are clogged pickup/strainer and a possible pump heading south but we are way ahead of ourselves until we determine that indeed the truck gauge/sender is not faulty.
Last edited by Tenn01PSD350; Dec 21, 2006 at 10:28 PM.
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I experienced the same thing once on my 02, 1/4 tank on the gauge and it ran out of fuel, but when I looked at the trip computer it read correct 0 miles to empty. The problem on mine hasn't repeated itself, that was more than 50000 miles ago.