260$ question
 

My fuel gauge is way off,do I have to purchase the entire fuel pump or the sending unit ,I was told it was all one unit.THAT is my 260 dollar question.:rolleyes:

Do I get $260 if I answer that for ya??? :D:D:D




Everyone's fuel gauge is way off, it's just a common thing with SVX's.... Mine will fall really quickly from full and then slowly creap down to E (and below) from about half a tank... But I still get about 21 mpg and I can cram 16gal. into it when I fill up so it's alright... Just fill up when the gas light starts to come on... When the light comes on you still have a wopping 2.5 gallons left!!! Compaired to the 1991 MR2 turbo's .40gal left I'd say you are safe if you let it get to where the light comes on.. :D:D

Wow, ya sure know a bit about them MR2s:D another non ricer, ricer.

I used the "fill er up when the light comes on" trick for a while, untill I started up an overpass and only made it half way up, darn light died.

Often fuel gauges are set wrong from the factory, Cadilac produced a car with a gauge that worked and customers complained of bad fuel economy so they went back to the industry standard of top half = 2/3 of the tank, bottom half = 1/3. Try it sometime, fill up most cars at 1/2 a tank and you'll put up to 2/3 of the capacity not including reserve in. This is also why you can drive most cars 30-60 miles before the needle moves off of full.

What kind of moronic customers are we?

Hehehe, nope, I'm definitly not a Ricer!!! :):)... I just know about them because my friend back in Military academy (kinda like a younger brother actually) had one... He didn't know much about turbo cars so I did most of the work on it for him... :D:D:D

I know the gas tank in my Loyal is empty when the gauge hits E. No lite or nothing just a sudden sputtering from lack of fuel.:eek:





Also on some 80's S-10s when the gauge read 1/2 it was actually empty:D

I reset the gauges to E with true empty on all the SVXes I've owned. I will make it my mission to go through all the SVXes and fix the problem one day. :D

Morons
 

Hi Lwin, We are just regular morons. In order to buy a Cadillac you have to be a special moron. Take care, BOBB

The 1 gen subaru legacys have about 3 gallons by the time the light goes on, but you have to be carefull becasue the light comes on and off(the light is on when your low, goes off when your really low) and i drove one after my mom did, she drove it till the gas light went out then, i jumped in and drove it around and thought it had enough gas so it wasent down to the light the car started sputtering right in front of a gas station:).

Hmm. Didn't know that about the Legs, I guess I always put gas in it when the light comes on. ( I'm pariniod about gas.)


I first learned about the S-10 gas gauge wile getting of one of those skid pad style exit ramps. Suddenly not steering or brakes:eek: I did manage to coast right into a gas station thoe:cool: but the filler was on the other side.:o

Lwin, share the knowledge! How do you reset the gauge? My SVX will read bone-dry empty unless there is 1/2 tank of fuel in it. It reads nearly full when really fuel and half full at 3/4. By the time it hits a half tank remaining is slams into the bottom pin and lays there. Thank God the low fuel light gauge works.

My Subie dealer told me I would have to replace the sending unit in the gas tank (simple job as long as there is less than a half tank of fuel in it) and that would resolve the issue. Do you think your recalibration would work on that or should I get a new sending unit then recalibrate for accuracy afterwards? Your recalibration trick does not sound like it would fix my issue. What do you think?

-Johnny