Gas Guage Fix

[RamblinRingo]

So my fuel gage always read between 1/4 and 1/2 a tank when it was full it'd read 1/2 and when it was empty it'd read 1/4. And sometimes it would move at all. So last night I got under there and pulled the whole assembly

@$$ you can see its a brand new pump and I knew someone had been in there cause there was a new locking on it and it wasn't even tight! So I started checking over my sensor and noticed the signal wire from the potentiometer was a little wiggle so I soldered the connector and little rivet joint together. To Test the sensor I just hooked up my ohm meter the red wire to the signal wire and the black wire to a ground on the whole assembly. When your tank is empty the resistor in the potentiometer reads 0.0 ohms and when your tank is full it reads 0.9. So I knew my sensor was good and was acting as it should I went ahead and put it back in. Locking the lock ring this time haha. At this point I still didn't know if my gauge would work, it could have still been a wiring problem between the sensor and the gauge but I turned the key and the gauge in the dash went all the way to 3/4!!

 

So there you have it. I'm not saying that little signal wire connector is loose on every broke level sensor but its something to look for!