MY 2005 CHRYSLER PACIFICA WONT TAKE FUEL, IT WILL IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH TIME HALF HOUR. THE DEALER SAID I NEED A NEW FUEL TANK FOR 900.00.

Clean the connector with electrical switch cleaner. A new sender is $110. A new pump and sender is $500.

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Inside of the fuel tank. Chrysler, in their infinite wisdom, decided to place the fuel pressure regulator, the fuel pump, and the fuel filter inside of the tank in one unit.

If you can't put much fuel in i's probably not empty! If there is not a big puddle of fuel underneath then your guage is broken.

call another dealer for a price to make sure there not jacking up the price

you may have a problem with the fuel level sensor were the lower part of the sensor that indicates how much fuel there is below half a tank.the only way is to remove the unit from the tank and inspect for damage,it may have to be replaced.

I have a 2004 Pacifica and mine is on the drivers side front, underneath between the bumper and the wheel splash guard. You will need to remove the splash guard ti access the PCM. Not very hard at all. Replacement time for a handy DIYer: about 1/2 hour. Good luck!!

The problem will get worse, to the point that it will leave you stranded, out of gas. The solution is simple but most dealers don't catch it. They try fuel pumps, computer updates, sensors and the problem persists. You can fix this problem yourself and without spending a nickel. Want to know how I know? I've owned two Pacifica's and both have done this. Here's why: The Pacifica has a very unique and poorly designed fuel storage system. It uses what is refered to as a saddle tank. This is so they can use the same tank in both the all wheel drive and the front wheel drive versions. If you look underneath you will see it actually looks like two tanks. The driver side is the fill side and the passenger side is the delivery side. There are actually two fuel pumps, a main pump (pumps gas to the engine) and a equalization pump (pumps fuel from the the fill side to the delivery side of the saddle tank. The problem that you are experiencing carries with it several symptoms; running out of gas when the tank is half full, the gas gauge dropping suddenly at half full, and the inability to pump more gas into the tank without shaking the car back and forth and/or pumping very slowly. This is because of the way the two sending units inside the tank send their signals to the gas gauge and the fact that only when the fill side of the tank is 100% full, can some of the gas flow over the top of the hump to the delivery side tank. You can replace pumps all day long and most likely still have the problem. So what's the fix? It's simple. Underneath the vehicle, inline with the emissions lines going to the gas tank, about middle of the vehicle, there is a small plastic air inlet filter about the size of 50 cent piece mounted to the floor of the vehicle. It is responsible for venting the tanks pressure, allowing fuel to flow into the delivery side tank. It get's full of dirt and debris. Replace it a cost of about $3.50 or just blow it out with compressed air. If you don't want to do it yourself, help those dealers out - point them in the right direction, or else they will be running in circles trying to fix the problem. NOTE: this is only a problem on Pacifica's, not other vehicles. More info on this issue here; http://www.dodgeboard.com/forums/index.php?threads/my-crazy-gas-gauge.6381/

Hi
Faulty fuel sender unit located inside fuel tank.

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Phillip

The float is bad on the fuel sending unit in tank.
The filling up problem is usually caused by the hose leading down to the fuel tank since it`s in a rather cramped spot they tend to get crimped causing the gas flow to kick off when you try to fill it theres not much you can do to fix that problem, you can try to straighten the hose if it`s crimping also check your gas cap to make sure it`s not real dirty that can cause some problems with tank float but not likely the cause hope this helped.

Hello, the answer to solve this problem is to take it to your nearest chrysler dealer and have them re-flash the updates to the ecu....since 2004, chrysler has had about 4-5 new updates since the date they were manufactured....you need to have the update that followed from your date of man. on your vehicle....They attempted to flash mine to the latest update and didnt work, turns out that they need the re-flash from back when...in order to get the gauage to stop fluctuating.....Hope this helps!!