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

From: Jon (jonsdak@midmaine.com)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 22:26:50 EDT


My '96 has always been way off. Now, for instance, it's sitting in the yard
with 178.6 miles on this tank, and the gauge says I have less than a quarter
tank left! Plug in the numbers, and the math says that means I'm only
getting 9 MPG!
Now, this tank has been mostly around town, but my truck gets 15-16 around
town and 17-19 on the highway. If I was to go fill up now, I'm confident
I'd have most of a half-tank left.
I don't know why it does this.. makes it kind of tricky to figure out
exactly when to fill up.

--
Later,
Jon
jonsdak@midmaine.com
http://jonsdakota.tripod.com
1996 Dodge Dakota Sport 4X4, 3.9L V6, 42RE, 3.92:1 8.75 axle, "BackRack"
Headache Rack,  Dodge Motorsports decals, steering wheel cover, and front
license plate, diamond-plate bedrail covers, Lund VentVisors, Lund
BugShield, Jensen MP-3310 CD/MP3 Receiver
""Vic"" <ib4x4@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:008601c22c35$4cfa5c00$9000a8c0@grinch...
>
> 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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