i need to make my 1998 chevy cavalier z24 appear to be on empty..... what fuse do i pull
HELP PLEASE!!!!
I could be wrong, but I don't think there is a fuse that would be dedicated to just that gauge. You could cut the wire sending the fuel signal at the connector behind the cluster, that should work. Why exactly are you doing this if you dont mind my asking?
Pull a fuse? Can't be done.. you would have to rig up a resistor to the fuel gauge sender line... to fool the cluster into thinking the tank is actually empty.
I'm guessing you're entering some kind of car show and you have too much fuel in the tank?
pull the cluster fuse matt (if im remembering correctly), it will make everything not work on the entire cluster, but still empty
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Anton Miller (PPC) wrote:pull the cluster fuse matt (if im remembering correctly), it will make everything not work on the entire cluster, but still empty
I had the battery removed from my car for nearly a year and the fuel gauge still said 1/2 full. It doesn't auto go to zero.
must be the years of your car.
3rd Gens drop to 0 on everything once you kill the engine.
jamie fix wrote:must be the years of your car.
3rd Gens drop to 0 on everything once you kill the engine.
How is his 99 not a 3rd gen?
I thought 95-99 Still showed the gas levels even when off, but 00+ all gauges fall to zero with the engine off?
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jamie fix wrote:must be the years of your car.
3rd Gens drop to 0 on everything once you kill the engine.
I've got two clusters in my room that dissagree with you. 97 and 99 cavaliers. The cars are about 40km away, I don't think they still have power... They don't necesarily drop, they just lose power. The needles barely have enough weight to them to turn the motors, if they are pointing up they will not fall.
Ill video next time i kill my engine.
Maybe i just got lucky and bought the ONLY sunfire that has NO problem using high beams, and fogs at the same time, as well as the ONLY Jbody that has all the needles completely drop. Immediately upon turning the key.
I dont know.
I don't think you understood what I meant. The motors in the cluster do not turn the gauges to zero when you turn the car off. The needles basically just go limp and may or may not fall back down to zero.Tach and Speedo will pretty much always fall because the needles are longer and heavier. The smaller needles, sometimes they fall, sometimes they wont. Atleast thats definitely what it seems like is happening with the 3 cavaliers I have owned, and two clusters I have taken apart. I may be wrong with why this happens, but I do know that I have had cars with no battery in them still show the fuel level (not necessarily accurate, but it didn't show empty).
There seems to be some confusion here...
95-99 clusters are the same. Fuel level stays up.
00-05 clusters are the same. All needles drop to zero when the car is turned off.
John Lenko wrote:There seems to be some confusion here...
95-99 clusters are the same. Fuel level stays up.
00-05 clusters are the same. All needles drop to zero when the car is turned off.
Thanks for clarifying that. The reason why I assumed the needles just freefall and may or may not go to zero is because if you take a cluster out of the car and turn it upside down the needles will move, so the motor doesn't seem to be actually turning them to 0, or atleast it doesn't hold them there.
Mine will center at 1/2 if the fuel leve is below that.
