Has anyone had a problem with their fuel gauge not reading right? My 2002 ctd had run out of gas twice on me now. First time, it read an 1/8th of a tank. Second time it read 1/4 tank. Starting to make me nervous to take it on trips cause I dont know exactly how much fuel I have. If you have had this problem, what's the fix?

 

Well theres your problem, wheres the diesel?









j/k bro just bumpin it up, some one will come help

 

Sounds like the fuel tank needs to be dropped to see what the float is hangin up on. Theres just not much to these things if they are working at all. They have been known to have problems but typically it is that they quit reading completely. If it is just not being reading accurate it almost has to b just the float either disinegrating and losing its float per say or it is gettin caught in something.

 

My fuel gauge will sink like a stone after it goes past the 1/2 point.

I'll get 300 miles from full to 1/2, but only a little more than 100 miles from 1/2 to empty.

 

I'm with hm. As crappy as it sounds I would drop the tank and pull out the sending unit. It may be meesed up in some way and need replaced. Do you have the LP on your block or the new factory intank LP?

 

Quit racing to the fuel pump Mayfair...

I get 300-320 from full to half mark and another 250-275 from the half mark to empty. Which gives me a good 550-600 miles to a tank...

But there is a repair for the fuel sender over on Fritz's Dodge Ram Tech

 

Once you figure out how the fuel tank works you can drop it, clean it and have it back in place in less then 2 hours easy, not including siphon time. That all depends on how much fuel you start with, can be as little as a few minutes or as much as an hour on just the siphon.

 

i had the same problem on my 94 ctd that runs on diesel but i never ran her dry "extreamly bad for the pump" just went to shucks and bouaght a aftermarket fuel level sender for like $15.88 and a matching autometer z-series geuge and now its dead nuts acurate