I only found the Fuel level sending unit, its close to $100 buck. can this be taken out and repaired or once it dies it dies? if you havent guess by now my gas gauge des not move at all(not with car on or off). is there any trouble shooting i can do to determine if this is the bad part?, tracker was sitting for close to 3 years, brought it back to life, but still has minor issues. or is there another part that would be considered the "floater"??
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95 Geo Tracker 2WD 1.6 L 8 Valve, vin U, auto 3speed, Soft Top
I only found the Fuel level sending unit, its close to $100 buck. can this be taken out and repaired or once it dies it dies? if you havent guess by now my gas gauge des not move at all(not with car on or off). is there any trouble shooting i can do to determine if this is the bad part?, tracker was sitting for close to 3 years, brought it back to life, but still has minor issues. or is there another part that would be considered the "floater"??
The fuel level sending unit lives next to the fuel pump mounted on top of the tank. You can see it to the left of the fuel pump in this photo
The 2 wires coming out of it could be hooked to a multimeter to test the sender. You don't need to drop the tank you just have to get to the connector behind the rear bumper.
The gas gauge does not move with the car off, but will sit at whatever level it was at when the car was on. Does your gauge indicate that the tank is full all the time, or empty all the time? The sending unit works off a float 'arm' the raises or lowers depending on the level. If you disconnect the connector for the sending unit at the left hand rear wheel well (and the 12v wire for the sending unit going through that connector will be yellow with a red tracer) and then turn the key to the on position, does the fuel gauge now go down to empty (if it was not at empty before)??
The wiring/ground to the sender might not be good - basically your options are problem with the yel/red wire, the ground wire or the fuel sender itself, but it's easier if you advise in more detail exactly what the gauge is showing - empty, full, etc.
I only found the Fuel level sending unit, its close to $100 buck. can this be taken out and repaired or once it dies it dies? if you havent guess by now my gas gauge des not move at all(not with car on or off). is there any trouble shooting i can do to determine if this is the bad part?, tracker was sitting for close to 3 years, brought it back to life, but still has minor issues. or is there another part that would be considered the "floater"??
We can only guess at what you mean by "floater" - when I saw the title of the post my first thought was that you were asking about a full floating axle, having read the post, I can see you're asking about the fuel level sender and I have to assume you are referring to the float that is a part of the sender - but at the end of the day - that is still an assumption.
You can either confirm the assumption - or - if someone else has suggested that the problem is the floater, ask them exactly what they mean.
Sticking with the assumption - you're going to need to do some troubleshooting - the gauge may be defective, or not receiving power, the sender may be defective, or the problem may lie in the wiring - connect a park (or side light) bulb between the gauge sender wires and switch the ignition on - does the gauge move - yes - you have a problem with the sender; no - the sender may be good, and the problem lies elsewhere.
Senders can sometimes be repaired - it depends on what's wrong with them.
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I only found the Fuel level sending unit, its close to $100 buck. can this be taken out and repaired or once it dies it dies? if you havent guess by now my gas gauge des not move at all(not with car on or off). is there any trouble shooting i can do to determine if this is the bad part?, tracker was sitting for close to 3 years, brought it back to life, but still has minor issues. or is there another part that would be considered the "floater"??
did you follow the fsm steps, in the stick
or read my sender guage page
here it is
it may be corroded to nothing, ever consider that?
i restore very old cars,, ones that have no new parts
and i rewind them with nichrome wire.
its just a crude rheostat.
for the gas gauge, it stays on empty, wont even budge weather on or off. i'll try the light bulb test, since i dont hava meter yet. btw i saw a list of where all the ground of this 95 geo tracker, 2wd, 8v, 1.6 auto 2 door are, but cant bring it back up, anyone has that location? for all grounds.?
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95 Geo Tracker 2WD 1.6 L 8 Valve, vin U, auto 3speed, Soft Top
why spend $100 guessing, the tests are so easy, boy scout easy.
a DMM. is like $3 to $15 . walmart has them for near nothing.
barrow one, rent one, at any autostore.
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for the gas gauge, it stays on empty, wont even budge weather on or off. i'll try the light bulb test, since i dont hava meter yet. btw i saw a list of where all the ground of this 95 geo tracker, 2wd, 8v, 1.6 auto 2 door are, but cant bring it back up, anyone has that location? for all grounds.?
on my page,
in the power distribution section.
and bad grounds.
ALL ThiS IS:
its in all FSM;books, in the backsections, (see examplebelow)
it shows all harnesses, in vivid details.
g402 bad kills the fuel pump and the meter (sender)
if the gauge test fails, the gauge is bad, the wire to it but
no power, because other gauges, use same power. (fuel/tacho/temp)
if that test passes. measure the sender wires in one of 4 places
front to rear. behind left rear light base are all pass thru wire
so you can measure the sender from there
this is not 100 % the FSM has 50 or more pages on wiring alone.
we can get the info. from any 95 FSM.
Ok this what I did : bought 7 function meter
Took off bumper cover, found connector, opened and tested on female plug and got reading of 066. The level went from redzone empty to all the way down. The male plug didn't move the meter.
I did pull the 15 amp fuse under the dash(said FI) and the car turned off. I then took off rear left tail light undid ground used sandpaper to clean ground and then reattach turned tracker back on an it turned on but still no gauge working.
Any instruction what to do next??
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The entire instrument panel works off the ig-meter fuse, but if there was a problem with that fuse, none of the gauges on the cluster (temp gauge, etc) wuld be working. Presumably they are.
I'm not sure what your reading of '066' means??? ARe you checking for resistance in the wiring?? You are advising that when you disconnected the fuel gauge connector, the fuel gauge needle actually moved from its present position to empty, is that correct?? Normally, if there is a wiring/voltage problem, the fuel gauge will indicate either empty or full, but nothing in between. If your gauge is measuring something in between, and then is dropping to empty when you disconnect the wiring (so no voltage going to the arm in the tank), it would appear that the arm itself only goes to a certain level, rather than indicating the amount of fuel in the tank. When you reconnected the connector, did the fuel gauge needle come back off of completely empty, and move upward at all?
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