ground out

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how do you ground out the the sender wire on gas gage to check if the gage is no good I need step by step I dont know what ground out means---Thanks
 

tylerin

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Re: ground out

What I have done is pull sender out of tank and move float arm up and down slowly and watch the gas gauge. All the way down should be empty all the way up should be full and half should be half. I bought one this summer and used a universal sender. the float arm had to be cut down to accomadate my tank. The sender came with a step by step on how to do this. Your sender was doing exactly what mine was doing
 

Bondo

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Re: ground out

To Ground out means;<br />Hook a wire to a Known Grounding Point("-, or Neg" = ground, Usually the Black wires) in the eletrical system.... Then touch it to the Sender side of the gauge...... It SHOULD read Full at that point......
 
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Re: ground out

thanks guys for the help It was the sending unit I took it out and the float seemed to be hung up so I put it back in and it seems to work -- but I will see when I cruise if the gage goes down now
 
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