Hello all. My fuel gauge drops down usually between an 1/8th to a 1/4 of a tank when i accelerate, be it hard or not. Whats up with this? Is there something that i should check out? It's really pissing me off.

All help appreciated. Thanks, Elad

 

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All help appreciated. Thanks, Elad</TD></TR></TABLE>

does it happen on a full tank???

 

Humm, mine EF does the same thing too...

 

mine doesnt do it at all weither its full or close to empty.

 

honda fuel gauges suck..

 

go autometer

 

mine does it when I turn sharp or accelerate. it drops down 1/4 a tank almost. It pisses me off too.

 

mine goes down to 1/4- empty when I accelerate hard, or corner hard. I just learned to live with it

 

Is there any way to fix this? What's making it happen?

Thanks!

 

The level sender is in the front of the gas tank so when you accelerate, the gas gets pushed to the back of the tank causing a temporary change in the level under acceleration, corning, etc. It's most noticable durning acceleration because you typically do it longer than corning.

 

I know I have an EK but I can't find any other threads on fuel gauges right now, and not to change the topic of the fuel gauge dropping, but last night I took my reverse glow gauges out of my 99 ex and now I get a reading of full tank alllll the time. It's just pegged at full no matter what i do. The temp gauge next to it works fine, but does this mean that the gauge itself is junk, or somethign else??? Made sure I didn't twist the needle all the way around or anything weird, just slid it off and then plugged it back in, full tank all of a sudden. any ideas??

 

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Speak for yourself. Some people actually use their EFs as they were intended!

But yes, the gauge is in the front of the tank in the middle. Any cornering or acceleration moves the fuel away from the sender. My gauge was reading almost empty on track at VIR, back in the paddock it's over half full.