Gas Gauge Wrong

[SUBURBAN5]

Funny how so many of y'all have problems with the gas gauge. The one in this Burb is pretty accurate. If it says it's half a tank down, it'll take ~22 gallons. I don't top it off; when the pump shuts off, I stop. Topped off the 06 too many times, trying to get as much in the thirsty beast as I can, and got the code for the evap solenoid. Got to crawl up there and replace it, and deal with the so called quick disconnect fitting.....learned my lesson. And I try to only get gas at one Shell that I've never had bad gas from.

Same here I think lol. Does your gauge dance or twitch constant? Lol

 

[Schurkey]

Gas gauge reads too high = excess resistance in the system; or a misadjusted float in the tank.

At least, that was true with the old analog gauges.

With the new stepper-motor gauges, you'd just yank off the needle, and reposition it so it reads right.

 

[alpinecrick]

Since I got my 98 k1500, the gas gauge has read way past full and hits E when it still has a few gallons left. It’s a new fuel pump w/ sending unit so that shouldn’t be the problem. Also, it’s shown the same on multiple clusters. Wondering if there is any fix?

They're all like that.......

I even had the cluster on my 96 calibrated. The gauges are all "within specs".

 

[SUBURBAN5]

Lol soon as it touches red I just tell my wife were using the reserves..

 

[alpinecrick]

There’s no telling how accurate it is. I ran across it while playing around with the scanner and thought it was a neat trick.

Mine was pretty close (or close enough for government work with a 20+ year old truck) but 10 mpg times 26 gallons still says that a fill-up at 250 is safe. I ran out of gas once at 307 miles and then the trip odometer stopped working a week later. I replaced the sender after that, lol.

Speaking of trip odometers, did you repair it? If so what was wrong with it? Trip odometer on my 96 has stopped working.

Sorry to hijack.......

 

[alpinecrick]

Lol soon as it touches red I just tell my wife were using the reserves..

There's still a lot of gas left when the needle hits the red.

Still makes me nervous though........

 

[SUBURBAN5]

There's still a lot of gas left when the needle hits the red.

Still makes me nervous though........

Lol that's the point. One day wanna test it. I bet anything it has to touch or barely pass the E like it does the F before your out

 

[east302]

Speaking of trip odometers, did you repair it? If so what was wrong with it? Trip odometer on my 96 has stopped working.

Sorry to hijack.......

It would hang on the 9/10 digit. It’s been a while now, but I think the red plastic coupler on the gear shaft had slipped. They’re easy to swap out if you have a spare cluster.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Personally on my Burb I try not to let the fuel level get much below 1/4 tank if possible. In theory that's still 10 or 11 gallons. But let it get too low too many times and the fuel pump will get messed up. Not interested in replacing that anytime soon.....

 

[R422b]

Personally on my Burb I try not to let the fuel level get much below 1/4 tank if possible. In theory that's still 10 or 11 gallons. But let it get too low too many times and the fuel pump will get messed up. Not interested in replacing that anytime soon.....

Same here although I also try not to fill up when I have used less than half a tank too often because I believe that leads to fuel problems from stale gas never being completely replaced.

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