Outer Limits 4x4 Board

G'day guys
My 40 series fuel and temp gauges have both stopped working at the same time can't see anything obvious, does any one has any sugestions.
And how is this for lucky...just went away for the weekend four wheeling, temp gauge broke yesterday. Coming home tonight travelling a couple of hours down the highway I decided to stop for a coffee. After buying a coffee I am walking back out to my truck and I noticed the dreaded green blood dripping on the ground ,Hose burst maybe a few km's before stopping. remember no temp gauge could have ended a lot worse


Cheers BJ

i forgot about the temp guage when i got told about your hose prob.. sheite.

umm, i recon loose connection on the back of the guage cluster? blown fuse?

yeah those 2 gauges are on the same fuse on mine, check all your fuses. My fuse had a dirty connection in the fuse holder, the gauges would drop out all the time, gave the contacts a clean and never had a prob again.

Checked all connectons behind the cluster and all fuse checked and cleaned no luck

Chhers BJ

keep me posted on this as this happened last time i went up th beach but im too lazy to fix so far....

im hoping its a dud fuse cos mine just went really fast.

bj42turbo wrote:Checked all connectons behind the cluster and all fuse checked and cleaned no luck

Chhers BJ

Sorry, dont mean to be a tosser but did u check both sides of the fuses with a test pencil? Mine looked fine till i put a test light on them.

Some useless info - i had this problem on my old ute many many moons ago - i used to bash the glass over the guage with my fingertips and sometimes it would come back to life - i think i ended up buying another cluster, but not sure??
It was a real Grimace problem, and wasn't an obvious fix..

sorry to waste your reading time...

RAY185 wrote: Sorry, dont mean to be a tosser but did u check both sides of the fuses with a test pencil? Mine looked fine till i put a test light on them.

Yeah mate i used a multi meter and test light your not a toser after all you have no idea what my skills are

Stackson45 wrote:i used to bash the glass over the guage with my fingertips

Yeah tapped the glass but with my fist, and punched the door also tryed kicking the tyres

Cheers BJ

did you get my msn message in regards to this? ih8mud had a suggestion if you didn't get my msn message

Yeah thanks Ad

why not pull out the cluster n check the nuts holding the guages to the circuit board...maybe they have come loose...? i havnt had a look behind mine yet...i'm not 100% sure how they mount behind so its only a guess

Robbo171 wrote:why not pull out the cluster n check the nuts holding the guages to the circuit board...maybe they have come loose...? i havnt had a look behind mine yet...i'm not 100% sure how they mount behind so its only a guess

Done that

Problem turned out to be with the plug connected to the fuel tank sender it was filled with mud. It also had a earth in the plug which I am assuming caused the temp guage not to work also




BJ

hmm i shall look into this, as i tried fuse swaps, jigglign wires, slappign the panel,yellign at it, etc and none of those worked.
i still have no temp, no fuel, no oil pressure.

where abouts is the wire you speak of???

I think the wire he speaketh of is the one under your driver seat which plugs into the fuel guage sensor on top of the fuel tank. Obviously only if your cruiser is the model with the tank inside the cab - not sure with shortys though, this was in my ute.

Stackson45 wrote:I think the wire he speaketh of is the one under your driver seat which plugs into the fuel guage sensor on top of the fuel tank. Obviously only if your cruiser is the model with the tank inside the cab - not sure with shortys though, this was in my ute.

Yeah thats the one only my tank is under the floor being a diesel and accessed via an inspection cover behind the seats

BJ

Cheers guys i will get onto this soon, the no gauges is irritating!!

its about now i wish that between my seat and the tank want a nice pretty wooden carpeted box which has to be pulled up also. hmmm be interesting to see......