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Have a 1993 top gun and one of the fuel gauges stay pegged out in the full position when i turn the key on and start the engine. When you turn the key off the gauge returns to the empty position. Dont really want to pull the sending unit out if i dont have to . Has anyone ever had a problem like this and found a quick fix.If i was a bad float on the sending unit i would think it would always stay on empty.
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Have a 1993 top gun and one of the fuel gauges stay pegged out in the full position when i turn the key on and start the engine. When you turn the key off the gauge returns to the empty position. Dont really want to pull the sending unit out if i dont have to . Has anyone ever had a problem like this and found a quick fix.If i was a bad float on the sending unit i would think it would always stay on empty.
You may have a shorted sending unit producing the full reading.
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Have a 1993 top gun and one of the fuel gauges stay pegged out in the full position when i turn the key on and start the engine. When you turn the key off the gauge returns to the empty position. Dont really want to pull the sending unit out if i dont have to . Has anyone ever had a problem like this and found a quick fix.If i was a bad float on the sending unit i would think it would always stay on empty.
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A bad ground ground would result in an open circuit and that would produce a constant empty reading, not full. I just went through this whole process after installing a new fuel tank. The troubleshooting process is pretty straightforward. I agree it's not the guage but most likely a bad sending unit or a hot (usually pink) wire shorted to ground.
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Not in my case. I had no ground wire and when I turned the key on the gauge would go to full, once I attached the ground wire it went back down to 1/4 tank of fuel (which is the amount I had in the tank).