gas gauge gave up the ghost

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Matt

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so its happened twice now in 2 weeks, gauge reads normal and all of a sudden it drops off, low fuel light comes on. I can slosh the tank around and the gauge will come up a bit but the light stays on. Now I can shut the car off and let it sit a few minutes, fire it up and everything goes back to normal....so im debating if I have a cluster going bad, the cluster wont dim or get brighter, been like that since I got it and ive replaced the dimmer switch as well as the illumination control module.............or the float in the tank is messing up and I need a new sending unit..........just looking to see if anyone has experienced this before and what there two cents on the issue are.......thanks guys

 
Our 97 OBS gas gauge drops from half to empty. I also get a code with it for fuel level input or something. I've never seen a gauge itself go bad, seen a lot of senders go bad. I might have Rad's old RS cluster you could toss in for a few days so you could rule out or in the cluster. I'll go look for it now.............

 
sorry matt I did not find the gauge cluster. I did put a new sender in my son's car and now his gauge works again.

 
its all good, I havnt had an issue since last reported and its been several fill ups.....I hate random issues, just break already!!!

 
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