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- From: jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen)
- Subject: Re: Problems with gas and temp. gauge
- Message-ID: <BzFyt6.GFn@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
- References: <17620@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:17:29 GMT
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- khayat@enp.umd.edu writes:
-
- >Hi;
- >I have a Nissan Pulsar 89 and lately I have had problems with the gas and
- >temprature gauge. The problem happened after a rainy and humid day couple
- >weeks ago; although I am not sure if this actually caused it. The gas and
- >tempreture gauge simultaneously quit on me and it tells me that I am run-
- >ning on empty. The temp. readout also never moves from the sub-cold posit-
- >ion. So I have had to time my refuling using the mileage meter; I've been
- >lucky so far!
- >I have checked the fuses and there is only a fuse for the fuel pump which
- >is fine.
- >I have seen the fuel needle come up very occasionaly when the car is star-
- >ting for the first time in the day and in very cold weather.
-
- >Can anybody offer me a hint?
- >Thanks in advance for your help.
- >Mohammad
-
- Two possibilities I can think of off the top of my head:
-
- 1) you have a bad ground to your dash guages which breaks its connection when
- warm. There might be a bad connection to a voltage source instead.
-
- 2) your dash guages have their own voltage regulator and it's going flakey.
- something very similar happened to my 1971 AMC Gremlin, R.I.P., which
- caused the guages to constantly move higher and lower when the inside was
- at a certain temp.
-
- Jeff Berntsen
- jeffb@world.std.com
-
-