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Gas gauge wire corrosion?

chaseincats
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6 hours ago, SteveJ said:

If you bend the arm down, it will register E later.

 

5 hours ago, siteunseen said:

I agree with Steve. If you bend it down, you'll get an empty reading much sooner.

 

5 hours ago, chaseincats said:

gotcha, thanks guys, ill straighten the arm then

Ummmmm. OK?     :confused:

comment_600614

It's not rocket surgery.

Use the toilet model again. If you bend the arm down, it cuts off sooner. Why? Because it is indicating that it is full even though the water is not as high as it was when the arm was straight.

If you bend the arm up, it fills up more because the float isn't being lifted up as soon to indicate it's full. Heck, if you bend it up enough, it won't cut off because the water will go down the overflow since the arm won't go high enough to activate the cutoff.

So if the gauge is reading empty at 9 gallons, the float on the sending unit is higher than it should be (or there is some other problem that we don't know about).

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    comment_600615
    16 hours ago, Captain Obvious said:

    Haha! I'm just looking at those three pieces of input there and I have no idea what's going on.

    The first two are completely contradictory, and the third is orthogonal.      LOL 

    I apologize. I meant read empty sooner. 

    I've had a mind melt down over the past few days.

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