What wires to check if gas guage moved to full and guage lights no longer work? I am stripping a 1995 ford escort to make a race car, Everything was working but I must have knocked aground loose or something, because as I was moving wiring I lost the guage lights and the gas gauge went all the way past full
I read on some other web site (can't remember which one) that the guage and the dash lights are link together, but you can beleive everything you read.
Really I am only concerned with the gas gauge. I am pretty sure that the gauge and the cluster are fine, everything worked yesteday, I was moving the wiring around to clean it up and was planning on reducing te wiring one at a time ( just to make it easier to troubleshoot at the race track if issues occured.) So I a pretty sure I messed up something in the wiring, any idea on how to figure out what wires would cause the gauge to go all the way past full?I read on some other web site (can't remember which one) that the guage and the dash lights are link together, but you can beleive everything you read.
Really I am only concerned with the gas gauge. I am pretty sure that the gauge and the cluster are fine, everything worked yesteday, I was moving the wiring around to clean it up and was planning on reducing te wiring one at a time ( just to make it easier to troubleshoot at the race track if issues occured.) So I a pretty sure I messed up something in the wiring, any idea on how to figure out what wires would cause the gauge to go all the way past full?
Emissionwiz, do you know what wire the sending unit is? The car is stripped and I can access all the wiring. The guage has worked for weeks with no issue, I must have knocked a wire loose, but have not been able to find one that is no longer connected.
The sending unit makes sense, and I'll try that once I confirm that it is just not a connection issue.Emissionwiz, do you know what wire the sending unit is? The car is stripped and I can access all the wiring.
The guage has worked for weeks with no issue, I must have knocked a wire loose, but have not been able to find one that is no longer connected.
The sending unit makes sense, and I'll try that once I confirm that it is just not a connection issue.
Emissionwiz, do you know what wire the sending unit is? The car is stripped and I can access all the wiring. The guage has worked for weeks with no issue, I must have knocked a wire loose, but have not been able to find one that is no longer connected.
The sending unit makes sense, and I'll try that once I confirm that it is just not a connection issue.Emissionwiz, do you know what wire the sending unit is? The car is stripped and I can access all the wiring.
The guage has worked for weeks with no issue, I must have knocked a wire loose, but have not been able to find one that is no longer connected.
The sending unit makes sense, and I'll try that once I confirm that it is just not a connection issue.
Emissionwiz, do you know what wire the sending unit is? The car is stripped and I can access all the wiring. The guage has worked for weeks with no issue, I must have knocked a wire loose, but have not been able to find one that is no longer connected.
The sending unit makes sense, and I'll try that once I confirm that it is just not a connection issue.Emissionwiz, do you know what wire the sending unit is? The car is stripped and I can access all the wiring.
The guage has worked for weeks with no issue, I must have knocked a wire loose, but have not been able to find one that is no longer connected.
The sending unit makes sense, and I'll try that once I confirm that it is just not a connection issue.
I don't have the ELECTRICAL AND VACUUM TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE AT HOME, U MUST REALIZE THIS CAR HAS A VERY COMPLEX ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AND WE TECHS NEVER MEMORIZE WE CONSULT THE MANUAL, SORRY, WILL TRY TO LOOK IT UP LATER..I don't have the ELECTRICAL AND VACUUM TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE AT HOME, U MUST REALIZE THIS CAR HAS A VERY COMPLEX ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AND WE TECHS NEVER MEMORIZE WE CONSULT THE MANUAL, SORRY, WILL TRY TO LOOK IT UP LATER..
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Try cleaning the throttle body and check the gap on all the spark plugs also all electrical sensor plugs and battery terminals this could be related to engine temperature also if to hot rpms stay up longer to cool off but maybe your idle air control valve is bad when did it start?
The coolant temperature switch and fan control switch are located sie by side, mounted in the steel portion of the heater hose that runs from the thermostat housing to the firewall, it is underneath the air intake tube and the ignition coil pack, mounted to the back of the cylinder head. Either drain out some coolant or be very quick, and you can unplug and unscrew each switch from the hose and replace it with a new one. Make sure the engine is cold. After replacing make sure to check the coolant level add as neccessary. The single wire connector switch is for the guage, and the other is for fan control. Hope this helps, let me know.
should be a grey wire going to the top of fuel tank connects to fuel guage / when the guage in the tank reads grounded it shows full , no ground it shows empty. if you ground that grey wire and the guage jumps to full then faulty guage if nothing maybe bad ground on the tank itself. the guages are a reostat like a tyco race car gun the more it moves the more it grounds .. good luck
You will need to locate the wire to the fuel sending unit at the fuel tank.
Once you locate the wire, disconnect it and see if the guage goes to 'E". If the guage goes to "E", you probably have a bad sending unit.
To double check, ground the same wire to clean metal on the frame with the key in the "on" position (not running). If the guage does not move, the guage is bad. If the guage moves from E to F, the sending unit needs to be replaced.
first to fix the guages check your fuses inside the cab next Open your hood and look for the fuse and relay center . open the cover and look for a fuse called IOD usually towards the top of the block , they are labeled . Remove the IOD fuse for 20 seconds and then reinsert . next check out the spark plugs and wires.
You will need to replace the Guage. If it is Inside a Cluster, You will need to Replace the Entire Guage Cluster for this Repair. Please Rate My Response! Thanks!
I read on some other web site (can't remember which one) that the guage and the dash lights are link together, but you can beleive everything you read.
Really I am only concerned with the gas gauge. I am pretty sure that the gauge and the cluster are fine, everything worked yesteday, I was moving the wiring around to clean it up and was planning on reducing te wiring one at a time ( just to make it easier to troubleshoot at the race track if issues occured.) So I a pretty sure I messed up something in the wiring, any idea on how to figure out what wires would cause the gauge to go all the way past full?
Emissionwiz, do you know what wire the sending unit is? The car is stripped and I can access all the wiring.
The guage has worked for weeks with no issue, I must have knocked a wire loose, but have not been able to find one that is no longer connected.
The sending unit makes sense, and I'll try that once I confirm that it is just not a connection issue.
Emissionwiz, do you know what wire the sending unit is? The car is stripped and I can access all the wiring.
The guage has worked for weeks with no issue, I must have knocked a wire loose, but have not been able to find one that is no longer connected.
The sending unit makes sense, and I'll try that once I confirm that it is just not a connection issue.
Emissionwiz, do you know what wire the sending unit is? The car is stripped and I can access all the wiring.
The guage has worked for weeks with no issue, I must have knocked a wire loose, but have not been able to find one that is no longer connected.
The sending unit makes sense, and I'll try that once I confirm that it is just not a connection issue.
I totally understand, you can not memerize everything for every car. If you get a chance to look it up that would be great.
Thanks
thees are 2 seperate problems.
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