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Old November 28th, 2009, 8:14 AM
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I have a 1977 Silverado C10 that I have redone from the ground up, I have a small problem, I plunked and Olds 403 with a T400 into it recently and there is a wire (redish or brownish) running from the fuel tank switch (about mid frame) that I have no idea where it goes, along with this the fuel guage is out of wack, showing way past full, Im a bit baffled, I think it runs to a power source but I really dont want to wire it in and have something burn up, any help would be fantastic.
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When you disconnect the fuel gauge wire, it goes all the way to full or farther, when it is grounded it will go to empty.
assuming you have 2 tanks that lonely wire may go to the guage in the dash, which is usually a brownish colored wire from what i remember.
If the gauge is way past full generally that means there is no ground at all to the sending unit itself, or the gauge wire is disconnected - thats ruling out any faulty parts.
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Thanks, I did in fact figure out the wire issue, and it did match up to one that goes in through the fire wall, had to replace a sending unit, so alls good!
Al
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