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Title: fuel gauge playing up
Post by: freecall666 on 08 August 2012, 17:48:34
has any one had this was driving along had just over 20L in tank, then saw it going down and down and down went back onto stop line stayed there for abit without the running empty light on then went back up to were it was at the start. then about 20min later did it again, miles left stayed were it was on the display. any one had this and what could it be was on a level road.???
Title: Re: fuel gauge playing up
Post by: TheBoy on 08 August 2012, 19:35:21
Never.

Is this on the panel you repaired?
Title: Re: fuel gauge playing up
Post by: Lazydocker on 08 August 2012, 19:57:22
Happens on my 3.2 when I'm running on LPG ;) Gets really annoying when the orange light comes on mid journey even though you're running on fart juice ::)
Title: Re: fuel gauge playing up
Post by: tigers_gonads on 08 August 2012, 20:15:08
Is they anyway these can be adjusted ?
Mine is all over the place when you have less then 30 ltrs in the tank.
Orange light on and off all the time
I know for a fact that you have a good 10 ltrs left when the gauge is below the empty mark and never reads more then about 60 ltrs when brimmed
Title: Re: fuel gauge playing up
Post by: Abiton on 08 August 2012, 20:39:56
I had trouble with the sender in the tank on ours which I managed to fix for free.  My drawing skills are worse than the average 5-year-old, but if you get the sender out of the tank you might be able to see what I'm trying to show in the sketch and words here: http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=75153.msg1015963#msg1015963

I'm pretty sure that the LED came on whenever ours dropped out, so this may be different to your problem freecall.

I would imagine that you could 'recalibrate' an under or over-reading gauge sender by bending the rod that the float is mounted on, in the appropriate direction.  Might take a bit of iteration to move it enough but not too much.
Title: Re: fuel gauge playing up
Post by: tigers_gonads on 08 August 2012, 20:53:33
That looks easy enough  :y
I'll put it on my list of things to do  ;)
Title: Re: fuel gauge playing up
Post by: freecall666 on 09 August 2012, 09:44:25
Never.

Is this on the panel you repaired?
i only replaced the flex board as there was no communication to the mid display. replaced from a 96 mig, still have the gauges from the other dash, could not find one from a 2.0, only found one from a 3.0.
Title: Re: fuel gauge playing up
Post by: freecall666 on 09 August 2012, 09:51:45
I had trouble with the sender in the tank on ours which I managed to fix for free.  My drawing skills are worse than the average 5-year-old, but if you get the sender out of the tank you might be able to see what I'm trying to show in the sketch and words here: http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=75153.msg1015963#msg1015963

I'm pretty sure that the LED came on whenever ours dropped out, so this may be different to your problem freecall.

I would imagine that you could 'recalibrate' an under or over-reading gauge sender by bending the rod that the float is mounted on, in the appropriate direction.  Might take a bit of iteration to move it enough but not too much.
thanks i will have ago at that at week end, failing that i think i have a tank sender around here some were so may just swap it over think they just cliped in arnt they ?  :) its back to normal at the mo, should of used a bit of fuel up by week end  to have a look.