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Anonymous Posted on Mar 28, 2012

I have a mx5. The fuel gauge is stuck showing half tank! how to i fix this.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 19, 2008

SOURCE: fuel gauge stuck on full

need to replace the sending unit

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jan 07, 2009

SOURCE: fuel gauge stuck on half full

I can tell you almost for certain your fuel level sending unit is bad, I have been able to fix them though. It requires removing the gas tank and then the fuel pump. You can if your inclined, bend the brushes on the small circuit board over more so they will make better contact on to it. Other wise its a new fuel pump assembly, check all plugs and wiring by unpluging and repluging them to insure no bad connect. It is possible it could be the guage itself, but in thirty years of fixing cars never had a bad guage

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Feb 01, 2009

SOURCE: 2005 Buick Rendezvous Fuel Gauge

well the gage is made of rubber it could be sticking no other way than to replace the gage itself/ please rate my response thank you very much

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 15, 2009

SOURCE: 2002 honda crv fuel gauge moves really slow.

sticky or old float in your tank

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Sudeep Chatterjee

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  • Posted on Jun 25, 2009

SOURCE: fuel gauge on 1993 Dodge Dakota V8

Definitely the gauge can be changed, provided the float in the fuel tank is OK, i.e. no leaks. This float connects to a potentiometer which records the current flowing thru it and displays it in the gauge. So before replacing the gauge measure the current and match that against the quantity of fuel in the tank...............sodeep

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