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I don't think my fuel gauge is working. It was reading empty, so I went to put gas in it and it overflowed, yet still never read over 1/4 tank. Any suggestions?
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Is there an easy way to check this. or will it be obvious once I get in there?Normally... the issue is the float in the sender unit. The old one saturates, and sinks because of our new fuels. The new style float is blow molded... and it will generally take care if the problems.
But if I take it out of the tank and move the float up and down, shouldn't the needle on the gage move?
I don't know much about using multimeters, but am not afraid to learn. It there a set of instructions or something?
I want to make sure I am understanding what I think you are saying. Disconnect the 2 wires from the thing in the picture, then put a meter on what exactly?Hu??????...
That's not a sea doo float system. Can you post a pic of where the fuel lines connect?
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ok... I dug around, and that boat used a merc sender. Pull the wires, and put a meter on it, and see if the resistance changes.
The 2 wires should be on the center terminal, and the other is just a ground.
Take them off, and hook the meter to the terminal, and ground on the sender. Set the meter to some resistance value. (you may have to try a few to get the right range, if the meter isn't auto ranging)
Then, have a helper move the float arm up and down slow enough that you can watch the meter. It should go up and down with the movement of the float. If it doesn't, or the value on the meter jumps around... the sender is bad. If it checks out... then the gauge has gone bad. (but the probe is NORMALLY the sender)