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

From: Andy Levy (andylevy@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 17:45:21 EDT


Vic wrote:
> 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.

I haven't touched my wiring.

-- 
-andy
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