At 07:06 PM 10/26/2008, isensee@aol.com wrote:
>For years, my gas gauge read about half when the tank was full, the needle
>would wave around quite a bit at times, and it would read empty long before
>the tank was actually low. Lately it has stopped working altogether
and reads
>empty at all times.
>I am thinking the symptoms indicate a bad sender unit in the gas
tank. Do you
>agree? Is there anything more I can do to test?
Scott,
That's a pretty good guess. I'm pulled several sending units from B's and they
are all shot.
There is a test you can do to test the gauge and determine of it's the gauge
or the sending unit. But most likely it's the sending unit.
>Does the gas tank have to be dropped to replace the sender?
Yes.
John
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