| Gas gauge issues all of a sudden [message #365554] |
Mon, 19 July 2021 21:53  |
boybach
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Registered: December 2020
Location: Vancouver Island
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After my shakedown cruise last week, -I'm guessing about 250 miles or so round trip, the gas gauge showed just under 1/2 tank.
I'd filled it to the brim before I left, BTW.
I've been back about a week and put about 2 or 3 hours on the Onan so I could run the fridge and keep the house battery up. Well today I had the genny running and after about 10 mins it coughed a bit then quit. Wouldn't start again, tried to run for a second or so then died again.
Even though the coach was level and the gas gauge still showed just under 1/2, symptom was "out of gas" in my mind. Headed over to the gas station and put $100 bucks worth in. Up here in BC, gas is $1.66/litre which translates to $6.28/us gallon and $100 gets you 59.3 litres or just shy of 15 gallons. [yep I know it's fupped up, but what can ya do]
Anyway, was surprised to see gas gauge stay at just under 1/2. Onan fired up no problem and ran steady after the fill-up.
So ....looks like the gas gauge isn't working properly? I was, as the title says, "messing about in the dash yesterday" -however if it was down enough to make Onan quit it certainly wasn't at half a tank. The gauge might have stuck when I got back, before I took the dash apart, because it didn't really change from just under 1/2 all week.
The gas gauge always showed the amount of gas even when ign was off which I also found odd, the other two indicators, temp and oil pressure zero out when the engine quits, but not the gas gauge ...normal behaviour?
Larry
Larry - Victoria BC -
1977 ex-Palm Beach "Ol' Leaky" 40,000 miles, PO said everything working but forgot the word NOT. Atwood helium fridge, water heater & furnace. SS exhaust system, Onan, Iota Converter, R134A, New fuel lines & heat exchange hoses
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