In the past month or so my Dakota decided to tell me it was out of gas a few
times when I had plenty left.
The first time it happened when I first started the truck, got the chimes
and the gauge was pegged at empty, plus my overhead computer shows distance
to empty was zero. I didn't happen to have my wallet when this happened, so
I had to run home to get money, then right as I pulled into the gas station
the gauge went up to about half a tank. This has happened a couple of times
since then and I haven't really noticed a pattern. The first time it
happened was right after I installed my powergate. I had a little problem
with wiring the powergate, so I had tapped a few wires that didn't work.
There might be a couple of wires that have very small bare spots from being
tapped, so I am going to go back and cover them to see if the problem goes
away.
I'd be curious to know if either of you had noticed this after messing with
any of your wiring.
"Jack Snodgrass" <jack+dml@cybermail.net> wrote in message
news:<MPG.179b31c0b1225954989687@news.dakota-truck.net>...
>
> In article <001601c22b33$1f584440$e54cef41@kwreimer>, kwreimer@msn.com
> says...
> >
> > Relax.
>
>
> My gas guage did some funky stuff once..... I knew that it
> was doing funky stuff... and I STILL ran out of gas. I was
> 1 mile from the closest gas station. I was pissed. I told
> myself the night before... 'remember to get gas in the
> morning... you can't make it to work on what you've got...'
>
>
> After I ran out of gas, the guage started working again.
>
> jack
>
>
>
>
> > ----- 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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