ok heres the deal. i rewired the sunfire cluster for my cav. everything works except for the darn gas gauge... its reading full when in reality i know that there is only about a quarter of gas in there. i havent had the chance to fill up yet cause the dash is stil ripped apart, and its not the sensor in the tank cause it worked piror to me switching out the gauges... so is there anything else i can try... i dont think its the cluster, and if it is is there anything i can do other than buy a new one... i just spent 80 bucks for this one.... and a 98-99 digital sunfire cluster is hard to come buy around here...
any suggestions???
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wow way to wait
does the needle for the gas gauge go to empty when you turn the car off? cuz i know my car the gauge stays at the same spot when i turn my car off.
since u rewired it, do you think something went wrong there?
you have to rewire? damn i thought it was just unplug, plug in sunfire and ur done..
no i ddint rewire the gas plug its the same on cav's and fires, its the ine little plug that has yellow white and black wires coming from it... or so i was told... any one confirm?
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and no its not as easy in 95-97 and 98-99 you have to rewire plugs.... so does anyone know what colors on the harness are the gas gauge, i thought it was the 3 wires that are on a seperate plug on the cluster.....
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If you remember exactly where the needle was before, poke it to that position and see if it works normally from there. If not, fill the car, move the needle with your finger to the full position, and see if it moves back down normally.
anyone know which wires on the cluster harness controls the gas gauge???
im thinking something might be reversed....
please help...
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[quote=DrÃkÉ]ok but im not sure why that would do it....
The logic I was going on is, you said it stays in the same position when you turn the car off. So maybe you bumped it, jolted it, etc, when you had the cluster out, the needle moved, but the car doesn't know that, so it doesn't move it back to the proper spot. The only way to know if it's working at all would be to let the gas run down a bit or fill the tank.
I drove it last night, and the gas gauge moved so that either leads me too believe there more gas in it then i thought or its reading backwards.... not sure yet ill take it for a fill up tomorrow and repost, also its not a good idea to drive without the dash and everything back together no interior lights, no turning signal, no problem lol
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alkatmsu wrote:If you remember exactly where the needle was before, poke it to that position and see if it works normally from there. If not, fill the car, move the needle with your finger to the full position, and see if it moves back down normally.
thats the point i was getting at when asking if it askin' if it stayed in the same spot.
FIll it up all the way. That's what, 15 gallons. Move the needle over to the full mark and drive the car for a few days until the gauge reads around 3/4 full. At that point you should be able to top the tank off with 3-5 gallons. I know if mine reads 1/4 tank its usually 3 1/2 gallons or so, but asonetimes it's as much as 5.
