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Gas Gauge i have a gas gauge problem as i'm driving my tanks says that i'm full of gas and then a friend said that i ran out of gas!!! what happenend??

  • ztrivera Nov 03, 2008

    Is my gas gauge is always in full position even though I've run 300 miles on it. So what I do always reset it back to zero. But how difficult it is to fix this. Or what's a reasonable charge by a mechanic for this type of problem?

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You are going to have to replace the fuel guage sending unit in the fuel tank, nothing else will cause this problem that this 20 year Ford dealer tech has seen.

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