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Old 07-17-2018, 01:34 AM
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Default Gas Tank Sending Unit Trouble Shooting

Thought I’d share some findings I discovered tonight. My fuel gauge has never worked as long as I have owned my Chevelle. My plan was to remove it and send it to a shop here in Ohio for a rebuild. I decided to check the resistance with my multimeter to see what was what.

1st up I noticed that I had an open circuit (1st photo) when I touched the multimeter positive probe to the sender post with the float at its empty-tank position. When I flexed the probe to one side or the other I was able to read a low resistance (.9 ohms) intermittently (2nd photo). Then with the probe flexed to the side i was able to get a reading of about 92 ohms with the float at the full-tank position (3rd photo)....
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