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Old 10-20-2004, 10:49 AM
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Friend has a del sol and the gas gauge is not reading correctly...it doesnt seem to go down to "E" but he had almost ran out of gas a few times he could tell when the car spudders when goin uphill and the gauge reads close to the "E" part. just trying to get suggestions to see if its a bad cluster or something else he can check.. dont want to have him buy another cluster for nothing...thanks in advance..
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when you drive, does the guage fluctuate a lot or no? and how many miles?
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no its doesnt fluctuate at all...it just doesnt seem to go all the way down to "E"?? it just stops a bit before it and if he doesnt watch it he runs out of gas!!
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by eK9aT10pSi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">when you drive, does the guage fluctuate a lot or no? and how many miles?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Sorry to use your thread for myself, but I was wondering what it means if it does fluctuate a lot....mine does. Mine fluctuates up to .25" on gauge.
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when he is low on gas just take the plastic off of the cluster and move the gauge w/ your finger to E then when you fill up next time it should be good. the gas gauge is weird like that. but in regards to It fluctuating mine does as well in my 88 si. It also cuts out like a son of a bitch but its a wierd cut out, its not like it not getting gas but its not getting any air? its wierd

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ok...i will tell him to try it and see what happens..thanks & any other suggestions??
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Im having similar problem as well, but its a litle different then yours

whenever i filled up the whole tank. the needle wont go down until its 1/3 left in the tank, then this 1/3 downs fast. Well, when you race specially, its pretty scary that it looks like "WHOA! i spent half tank of gas for 2 laps"..

I dont know if its the gauge itself..
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My gauge fluctuates but only when I'm going up or down fast hills or around curves marked 25 MPH at 55 MPH
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SRCivic97 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My gauge fluctuates but only when I'm going up or down fast hills or around curves marked 25 MPH at 55 MPH </TD></TR></TABLE>

Same here..

Is there a simple fix for this small problem.

I've been told it could be the ''floater'' in the gas tank..



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