Fuel Gauge Help!

[jaymanek]

My fuel guage is working very intermittently maybe 50% of the time. It does not dance about when it works like some ive seen, it works as it should.

I shorted the plug connector at the tank and all i could get was the red empty lamp to come on.
When I have done this test on other cars in the past, im sure the needle has shot to full when ive shorted the connections..

So is my guage faulty?

tapping the guage has no effect.. even put my hand up behind the dash to wiggle the wiring loom but this had no effect either.

I have read that the fuse could cause problems but all the other items on that fuse work fine, i.e. reverse lamp etc.

Can anyone suggest any test I can do before removing the cluster?

[merrill]

could be your fuel sender,  i changed mine and my gauge works fine now.

you could try removing the sender and cleaning it. new ones are are not that expensive....

[al_lieffring]

The fuel gage sender and the indicator lamp are two seperate circuits, grounding one will turn on the lamp, and grounding the other will make the gage go to full. the third brown wire is the ground.

[jaymanek]

Ok well grounding is not making the needle go to full so that must mean its the cluster or of course the wiring thereto?

[jaymanek]

It was the guage... Removed the front and gave the needle a nudge and it fired into life.. hasnt failed yet but ive just won a spare cluster on ebay just in case!