Ok, I did a search, so don't flame me.
Sometime in the past three years my stock gas gauge went out, so I replaced it with an aftermarket one, cheapo from Advance Auto. That one worked for a few months and now it's crapped out.
Here are some symptoms... For a while the aftermarket one wouldn't even give a reading, then one day it decided it would, but it wasn't an accurate reading. With a full tank it would read about 1/2. A few weeks later the dumb thing just started working normal. This continued for a few months until one day in August of '05 it just up and quit again. Now it reads about an 1/8 of a tank, but the needle never moves. Is this a problem with the sending unit or the gauge?
I ran out of gas on my way home from work about three weeks ago (the odometer doesn't work either, so no use in counting miles), and I'm about to bring the 40 down to school, about a 4-5 hour drive, so I don't want to be stuck somewhere on the side of the road. Does anyone know what the problem is? Or if I can just order and gauge and sending unit combo that will remedy this problem for good?
thanks a lot
Sometime in the past three years my stock gas gauge went out, so I replaced it with an aftermarket one, cheapo from Advance Auto. That one worked for a few months and now it's crapped out.
Here are some symptoms... For a while the aftermarket one wouldn't even give a reading, then one day it decided it would, but it wasn't an accurate reading. With a full tank it would read about 1/2. A few weeks later the dumb thing just started working normal. This continued for a few months until one day in August of '05 it just up and quit again. Now it reads about an 1/8 of a tank, but the needle never moves. Is this a problem with the sending unit or the gauge?
I ran out of gas on my way home from work about three weeks ago (the odometer doesn't work either, so no use in counting miles), and I'm about to bring the 40 down to school, about a 4-5 hour drive, so I don't want to be stuck somewhere on the side of the road. Does anyone know what the problem is? Or if I can just order and gauge and sending unit combo that will remedy this problem for good?
thanks a lot