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fuel gauge - only reads from half tank down??
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:16 pm
by islandvitara
my fuel gauge is inacurate?? sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt, when i fill it up the gauge immediatly reads empty or juz doesnt work - but once the fuel tank drops to about halfway the gauge begins to read until empty??
whats going on?
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:07 pm
by nicbeer
A bit like mine.
Full tank on gauge is at very bottom under bottom mark and full tank is about 2/3 on gauge and then goes upwards from full
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:38 pm
by known 2
yeh mine does the same, is it a common problem with suzuki's . is it a easy fix?
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:18 pm
by mr green
yeh, new sender from ebay. $40 delivered
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Fuel-Sender-Unit ... 35a40cd392 just cause i'm a nice bloke
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:49 am
by islandvitara
Pulled my tank out as it was cracked so I had it welded up at work. I also had a look at the sender, tradie said it could be a bad contact on the fine wire inside the sender. Undid the 3 metal tabs n took the cover off, thats when I saw that the tab thing inside wasnt making contact on the wires all the way, it was only making contact half way to the end - thus used a small washer to space out the rod as its spring loaded which forced it down gently. Now it makes contact top to bottom n checked it worked with a multimeter set at 200 ohms. All fixed =D