R32 Gtr Fuel Level Gauge

[SiR_RB]

Hello

Lately my fuel level gauge is playing up, when the car is off it shows it at half way, then when I start the car and start driving it goes down near Empty.

I went to put fuel incase it realy is low but it only took $40 to fill up so I'm assuming abit more than half a tank was already in the car

Also when I filled up the maximum the gauge would read was 3/4 full

Could the fuel level gauge in the tank be stuffed?

Anyway of testing it? Any thing to clean ? Common probs?

Thanks

[Hadouken]

Have you tried driving until near empty and then refill to the top? Sometimes it gets stuck.

I wish it was digital though :S

[jhjones]

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/363010-fuel-level-sender-cleaning-r33-gtst/

[Triptych]

I had a similar issue in my R32 car except it was always reading 1/4 too high. So basically when i filled up it would go about 1/4 above full and run out of fuel around 1/4 of a tank instead of empty. I didn't notice this at first (should have noticed the day I picked it up because it had about 1/4 tank of fuel and ran out of fuel 5 minutes later) and I tried changing the sender unit which didn't fix the problem and found it to be the actual fuel gauge itself. Do a test first (normally cheaper to find a fuel sender then a instrument cluster these days) and plug a spare sender in (without fitting it to the tank) and see if the gauge reads empty. If it reads right then its the sender, if not its the gauge.

[Stevoss]

If you pull the sender and the cluster you should be able to get them fixed by a instrumentation place, nemiss is the 1 I use in Newcastle but I would assume you would have. Something similar near you.

[carcass]

Had a similar problem with my '93 GTR. Unscrewed fuel pump/sender/lines cap to find a piece of wire attached to some braided line had gotten caught around the float of the fuel level sender. Keeping the float down to an incorrect level. Sometimes reading empty after $65 top up. Untangled the two, gave sender a gentle wipe over. Reassembled screw top and lines. Everything back to normal again.

Edited April 21, 2014 by carcass