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1996 gtx no fuel bars or light

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WaveriderX

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I have a gtx that ran great last year but now that it is time to start to bring them out I put the battery in today after replacing buzzer and oil filter and a couple of other small things I noticed that my fuel gauge will not read anything at all .the light doesn't come on when I plug the key in and I get no bars,I know that when I put it away for the year It only had 1 bar to blinking bar I try and get as much out as I can. so I know it is very low but I'm not getting anything the light should be on and it should say low fuel like it did last year hope you guys can help me with this problem I do have new fuel float but it was working last year so I didn't bother to putting it in but from what I read It will say that is empty but be full mine says nothing at all. So could it be a fuel float or something else? Thank you for your help

Ski has 350hours

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Unplug the two pink wire connector and measure the resistance from the baffle. If it's an open circuit, your F1 fuse is blown or magnet issue. 0 ohms full tank, 90 ohms empty tank.

Also, short the two terminals using a jumper wire on the gauge side and put the key on, it should then read as a full tank. This will test your gauge to make sure it's working properly.
 
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Unplug the two pink wire connector and measure the resistance from the baffle. If it's an open circuit, your F1 fuse is blown or magnet issue. 0 ohms full tank, 90 ohms empty tank.

Also, short the two terminals using a jumper wire on the gauge side and put the key on, it should then read as a full tank. This will test your gauge to make sure it's working properly.
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Thank you so much I got 28 ohms on an almost empty tank and when I short to 2 terminals every thing works light and bars so is this the magnet for sure or should I check fuse as well I wasn't getting anything before but now I am when I short it out
 
probably magnet issue but for sure the problem is in your baffle, so it has to come out which is pretty simple on your GTX. I remove the F1 fuse and solder over it even if it is still working as it just hasn't failed yet but it will. then put a new float in it and I'll bet it works perfectly.
 
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probably magnet issue but for sure the problem is in your baffle, so it has to come out which is pretty simple on your GTX. I remove the F1 fuse and solder over it even if it is still working as it just hasn't failed yet but it will. then put a new float in it and I'll bet it works perfectly.
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Ok will be removing tank and replacing float and what do you mean by solder over it like eliminate the fuse?
 
Search F1 fuse. It is an onboard fuse in the baffle. You cut a hole in the top of the baffle to get to it. You do not really need it so many just short it out with solder. Lots on pix on doing it on this site. This is a GTX right? Your sig says GSX. The GSX is a biatch to get at. The GTX is cake.(pull the glove box)
 
Agreed,,, if you pull it do the F1 solder job. Well worth it to NOT be pulling it in the future...
 
Ok will look in to f1 fuse I put a new float in and still nothing still getting 28 ohms so it has to be the fuse right here is the old float and yea it was a cake nothing to it the old one does look bad

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Like this one? I bought it over winter was going to do it when I did all the other stuff but I said to my self it worked last year so I will see how much longer it will work but looks like it gave out
 
Ok I cut it open and found the fuse and found where I need to solder do you guys think it would be better to replace the the fuse with a new one or just solder it together and be done with it thank you for your help
 
I would just solder a wire in place of the fuse, the fuse doesn't blow because of an overload, but being an older glass tube fuse it goes bad over the years because of vibration. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Lou
 
a lot of bad info on most youtube and other forum sites doing this repair. All you need to do is drill a 1" hole in the proper spot, a forstner bit, or hole saw works great but be careful not to hit the board. remove fuse with soldering iron, bridge contacts with solder, it's only like an 1/8" gap. you can replace the fuse if you like but the only real purpose I see is that if somebody miswired or intentionally put voltage to the leads, it could potentially cause a fire/explosion. The baffle is just a variable resistor using magnetic switches. you don't need to weld the hole closed, it can stay open. it is high enough, in the fuel neck at the top that it will not cause any issues. I've done it a hundred times, I think I posted some pics on here a few years back in somebody's thread.
 
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Note that it is likely the fuse, it is not for sure. And some do not have that type of fuse. My 96 gsx had the wires break the connection where they go into the housing. I drilled small holes into the housing and replaced the wires. So when you have it out use an ohm meter to check it out from the connector to the board. Then check the thing with a meter to make sure it goes up and down when you move the float.
 
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Ok so after soldering the fuse I still have nothing the ohm meter on the wires just slowly goes up to like 27-28 ohms but takes a long time but when I check the board it's showing 28 ohms empty and 0 full I'm checking at the square points on the board if I check the wires no matter where the float it's always 27-28 ohms what else can I do to save this?
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I'm thinking is bad connectors to the board but board won't even go past 28 ohms so don't know if you can fix it guess I will just be check the level through out the day until I can get a new one
 
That's exactly what I did, I bought a new assembly. It's so hard to get the baffle out of a 96/97 GSX, I decided just to buy a new fuel baffle assembly and be done with it. I think it was about $100.00 on Ebay.

Lou
 
Yea I did the fuse and the float no changes it's 20 years old what do you expect you know any ways it's probley time for a new one did what I could.
 
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