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Old Feb 6, 2022 | 08:28 PM
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Is there a simple test for a beginner to determine if the fuel sender or the gauge itself is bad?
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Old Feb 6, 2022 | 11:27 PM
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Touch the sender wire at the gas tank to ground and look if the fuel gauge moves. If it does you have a bad sender.
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Um, there is a connector up in the left hand quarter panel that connects the fuel sender. Get your head up in the left rear quarter panel. It's a 2 wire connector. one is ground the other the sender wire. The ground will be black , the sender is tan or light brown by memory.
Connect the tan wire on the side going to the gauge to a good ground. Watching your gauge as you do it. (or have a helper) Sender can be checked off the other side of the connector with a ohm meter and a friend hooking and raising the float. 90 ohm sending unit.
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Hey John, Welcome to the forum! This should help: https://redirect.viglink.com/?format...-gauge-info%2F
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Go to the Willcox trouble shooting pages. Doc rebuild has some tests as well

http://repairs.willcoxcorvette.com/w...it-testing.pdf

http://repairs.willcoxcorvette.com/c...el-gauge-info/
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