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Offline southdakota85chevy

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gauges still reading to high
« on: December 31, 2010, 02:48:50 pm »
still having an ongoing problem with my coolant, gas, and oil pressure gauges all reading about a quarter to high, had truck into the shop and they said all gauges and sending units tested out within specs, and the printed circuit looks fine, basically i paid 100 bucks for them to tell me all they can think to do is put a reducer on each gauge to bring them down within spec, but to me it seems there has to be one common source thats causing all the problems, i hav no idea, ive checked everything i can think of!

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Re: gauges still reading to high
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2010, 03:48:47 pm »
Elaborate. Do you have the correct cluster and the correct sending units? How do you know the gas gauge reads too high? Have you tried swapping in another cluster?
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Re: gauges still reading to high
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2010, 04:02:02 pm »
should b correct sending units because nothing was changed out and it used to work fine, and well, i know the gas gauge is off because it ran out at a 1/4 tank, ..twice, the only thing ive changed somewhat recently was the battery, haven't tried a new cluster, wondering if mabey the printed circuit could be bad even though it looks ok

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Re: gauges still reading to high
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2011, 10:18:20 am »
You've got some unwanted resistance somewhere.
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