[weverette1]

WOW!
Anyone have 65 gauge problems they actually fixed?
Clues?

[Zaikur]

The only gauge problem I'm having is that when it's full of gas it reads empty. Then drops to half until I put more in it. Never ran it out of gas (or anywhere close) to know if it works past that point. I'm thinking it's in the sending unit.


What gauges are you having problems with?

[Veronica]

Hello.
The gauges on these cars aren't difficult to diagnose and repair, once you figure out how they do what they do. This might help.
The Care and Feeding of Ponies: Gauges don't work?

[weverette1]

Good article Veronica!

Actually, I found the problem, and it's one I've never seen mentioned.

I had the 2 nuts that hold the gauges on too tight, and it caused gauges to ground against the cluster.

[Veronica]

Originally Posted by weverette1

Good article Veronica!

Actually, I found the problem, and it's one I've never seen mentioned.

I had the 2 nuts that hold the gauges on too tight, and it caused gauges to ground against the cluster.

Hi again. You shouldn't do that. Just out of curiosity, did that also make the dash lights do strange things, like blow the fuse or stay on all the time?

[weverette1]

No funny light things were going on.
Just a continued frustration trying to locate the problem.

When I bought the car in August, it had been setting 12+ years under a shed & cover, but not in a garage unfortunately.

When I first removed the cluster to begin the search for the non working gauge problem, I found a burnt wire from the CVU to both gauges. So I don't know what caused that from the very beginning.

Still don't know what caused the melted/burnt wire.
I mean, ALL the plastic was melted off, and the wire looked like red hair!

Do you know?

[Zaikur]

Now this is just a guess, but it sounds like something got hot

Trace the wires and see if you can find any place where the might have been shorting out to something. Sounds like that is what the problem was.