Took the car out to put gas in it and afterwards,the gauge needle started to jump from full to about quarter marks on the gauge. Anyone know how or what I can do for this.......any help on this will be helpful. Thanks Rick

Were you having any issue with the gauge before this one time of putting fuel in? If not, I would suspect the sending unit in the tank. It may have a small break in the winding of the rheostat that can cause this sort of thing.
A loose connection/ground at the tank unit can also cause that.


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Mine does the same thing. I changed the sending unit and it still bounces....Rumor is that it may be a bad resistor on the back of the gauge itself. This is slated to be a winter project for me.

My '81 had a bouncy fuel gauge issue years ago. After discussion with Ken Styer "kstyer" I went ahead and changed out the fuel gauge and the problem was solved in my case.

The fuel gauge is designed to act like a damper. Otherwise it would bounce around constantly as the fuel sloshes around the tank.

So it's one of two things. Good luck!

Sarge


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