Gas Gauge woes

[thelinja]

So I'm driving the car to motorsports club tonight and the gas gauge drops and points to the floor. It was previously on a 1/4 tank. After I leave the meeting, I went and got gas, and the gauge slowly went back up to Full. Anyone else have this happen before? What became of it?

[HippoSleek]

I don't know what to tell you other than the gas gauges on s14's suck. Mine has done it a few times. I never like it. I've never fixed it b/c a) I wouldn't know where to start; and b) too much effort for the limited number of times its happened.

There's a reason these cars don't hold their value as well as some others... :(

[uiuc240]

check this out:

From 92 FSM (all S13 should be the same):

Full: 4.3-5.8 ohms
1/2 : 27.7-34.4 ohms
empty: 78.3-84.8 ohms

Asad


Autometer has a fuel gauge that runs from 0-90 ohms. I'm wondering if the 240 problem is the sender or the gauge itself. You could try a new gauge (just splice into the factory wiring or something) and see how that does.

Or, just do like the rest of us and f*** it.

Eric

[thelinja]

Thanks guys. I'm not too worried about it actually. I know how many miles I can get on a tank of gas. But now it seems to work fine again. I might have been closer to empty than I thought last night.

[HippoSleek]

How many ohms for pointing strait fvcking down? Not E - not 1/4 tank less than E, but 6 o'clock! :o

[s14slide]

I got sorta the same kind of problem. My gauge will stay at full or at about 7/8 full until I hit about 250 miles roughly, depending on how I've been driving. Once I hit that point it drops straight down to 1/4 and drop about 1/16 of the gauge about every ten or fifteen miles. Weird gauge, it has been like that since the first time I put 103 octane in the tank.

[uiuc240]

Originally posted by HippoSleek
How many ohms for pointing strait fvcking down? Not E - not 1/4 tank less than E, but 6 o'clock! :o

:eek: :D :( :confused:

I have no firking clue what would cause that or how you could fix it. Well, perhaps there was a short and that was messing up the ground. You should see what happens to my water gauge when I disconnect the ground...it pegs past 250!!! hehehe. Freaked me out the first time. I was like, WTF? I haven't driven the car in 2 hours and it's overheating????:mad: :o

Eric

[ibanezxguy]

some of yall might need to make sure the unit is still mounted in the tank, mine fell off the rail after doing donuts...

[thelinja]

Originally posted by ibanezxguy
some of yall might need to make sure the unit is still mounted in the tank, mine fell off the rail after doing donuts...
Seems logical..but how the hell do you get to the inside of the tank?

[ca18guy]

Also can do what I did with my old car and clean the sending unit off with brake cleaning spray.

[ibanezxguy]

To get to it, s-14, its under that little grey hatch in the trunk on that hump, its pretty simple just make sure you put the hoses you take off back in the right place. and to get the unit out use a srewdriver and hammer to turn the locking ring under the pannel. Of you need me to explain in more detail l will