Re: Gas gauge did something funky today....

From: kevin reimer (kwreimer@msn.com)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 08:36:47 EDT


Relax.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Levy <andylevy@yahoo.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 8:42 PM
Subject: DML: Gas gauge did something funky today....

>
> Got in the truck to go out for breakfast this morning and the dash chime
> rang twice. Didn't see anything weird, but I shut down anyway. Started
> back up and everything was OK.
>
> Got on the road and I noticed that with 120 miles on this tank of gas, I
> had only half a tank indicated left. 2/3 of that was highway miles - no
> way is my mileage THAT bad! Over time, however, the needle kept coming
> "up" and finally got to where it should have been (1/3 tank burned).
>
> Any ideas on why I'd get a wildly wrong reading on the gas gauge?
> Something else get dirty last weekend just now it manifests itself?
> --
> -andy
> andylevy@yahoo.com
> Maintainer, DML FAQ - http://www.dakota-truck.net/faq/
> http://home.twcny.rr.com/andylevy/dakota/
> '99 CC 4x4 318 auto
>
>



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