Okay, have you heard this one before???

71 swinger /6.

No fuel gauge.

No ground strap at the lines, so I tried a jumper strap- did not work.

I wired a ground from fuel sending unit fitting to a chassis ground-still not working.

I have good continuity from blue wire at drivers kick panel to sender.

I do not not know what else to check or how to check if I have a gauge problem or a sending unit problem.

Here's the kicker.


I know the gauge works because I saw it once and I thought it fixed itself.

It only worked one time, and that was the only time I drove the car in the rain and the roads were wet.

The gause was working perfectly and I was ecstatic, but the rain stopped, and as soon as the roads were dry again, I looked down to see the gauge went back to it's normal pegged empty status. ...doh!

I don't know if the rain acted as a ground path to conduct a circuit or what, but it has never worked since, nor have I driven in the rain again to test it.

What are your thoughts?

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Just because you are not "paranoid" doesn't mean they aren't coming for you.

Does the temp gauge work?

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"When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it." - Pointy-haired Boss

1964 Valiant V200, 225/Pushbutton 904
BBD, CAI, HEI, LBP, AC, AM/FM/USB, EIEIO

Yes, the temp gauge works fine.

I played with the connections at the gauge and the kick panel to no avail.

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Just because you are not "paranoid" doesn't mean they aren't coming for you.

It's a shot in the dark but check that you have a good engine to body ground. Your negative battery cable probably goes to the engine. Run a jumper from there to the body/frame.

Danny

You might want to do a search here for test procedures, what voltage to expect from the sender, etc.

See

One possibility is a stuck or sunken float. A bad sender is also possible, as is a bad gauge.

Read THIS, THIS, and THIS

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"When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it." - Pointy-haired Boss

1964 Valiant V200, 225/Pushbutton 904
BBD, CAI, HEI, LBP, AC, AM/FM/USB, EIEIO

From your post, I am not sure if you tested the gauge by removing the (blue) wire from the tank's sending unit and grounding that to the chassis.
Grounding the sender's wire should make the gauge read full and if that is the case, the problem is a bad ground path to the sending unit or a bad sending unit / float.
DD