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Faulty fuel gauge diagnosis

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Miniman:
No the two wires from the sender are both + feeds one is for the low fuel light and the other is for the sender itself. That is where I went wrong. The unit earths via the tank. The earth for the guage is a black wire which fastens to the back of the guages with the round finger nuts which also hold it in..... I will have a look for a pick for ya...

Miniman:
Sorry I cant find a pic. But there is a chain of black wires that connect each gauge via the body of them. Check and see if this is ok. If not take an earth and twist it round one of the threads which hold the gauge in and put it to a good earth then go for a drive see if its fixed or even just pull out the sender and manualy move the arm.

MisterC:
Thanks Miniman.  Having had the dash off several times, I know the black leads you're talking about.  Incidentally my tank sender only has one feed, it doesn't have the low fuel warning light, which (just putting the hood up on my anorak) I believe was optional.  Being colour blind, taking the dash off was a bit of a challenge when re-assembling, hopefully I can find a passing gynaecologist to get his/her fingers inside my dash without disconnecting too many of those wires (whatever colour they are).

hobbit:
Safest way is to take some pics as soon as you can when popping the unit away, at least it will give you some idea what is what.

The last person who worked on the dash on the hybrid used white masking tape and felt tip to mark some of the wires :wink:  :?

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