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Old 06-15-2017, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Greg Reid View Post
It would be helpful if you could find out. Generally, if everything else is working and you short the 12v supply going to the sender to ground, the needle will peg past empty. If you open the 12v OR the ground the needle will float past full.
If you do both of those and nothing happens the next thing to look at is whether you have voltage to the circuit or if there is a short somewhere upstream and finally the gauge itself if all that is good.
I didn't think the sending unit had voltage on it at all. If I remember correctly, the sending unit was just a variable resistor reading somewhere between 0 and 90 ohms to ground depending on how much fuel was in the tank.