intermittent fuel gauge, any pointers?

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mgcarma

Hi there,
my fuel gauge will sometimes work, sometimes not, hard to tell.
can someone tell me which wires coming out of the tank are which?

there are about four of them, I am assuming power and ground for in
tank pump

and power and ground for float level gauge sender.....whichone is
which?
thanks
kevin
My manual is on the way from california, help much appreciated.

cheers
Kevin
 
mgcarma said:
Hi there,
my fuel gauge will sometimes work, sometimes not, hard to tell.
can someone tell me which wires coming out of the tank are which?

there are about four of them, I am assuming power and ground for in
tank pump

and power and ground for float level gauge sender.....whichone is
which?
thanks
kevin
My manual is on the way from california, help much appreciated.

cheers
Kevin
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What car is this? I'd guess a Volvo of some sort but it would help if
you could narrow things down.
 
mgcarma said:
Sorry, It is an 88 Volvo 240DL, sedan.
duh
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Yellow-red is for the tank pump.
Gray is for the sender.
Brown is ground.

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)
 
mgcarma said:
Sorry, It is an 88 Volvo 240DL, sedan.
duh
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If you can access the screw where the ground wire from the sender connects
it might help to scrape away the paint under the screw. That was the problem
on my 765T when the guage became intermittent.

Mike
 
Sorry, It is an 88 Volvo 240DL, sedan.
duh
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At least with the 940, the most common culprit seems to be cold
solder joints inside the combined instrument.
Jarkka
 
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