C3 Corvette fuel gauge stopped working 

Amazing news! Glad I could help🥳

@@c3sgarage That was the one thing that needed to be done to complete gauge restoration. I can close it all up now and move on to other things. Thanks for sharing 👍.

Haha there is always something with these cars but I wouldn’t want to have it any other way lol. Were you able to locate the issue and fix ?

Worst feeling ever hahah, I would start with the ground although if the needle is jerking, I would be inclined to thinking is the gas tank sending unit. Not hard to replace neither! Let me know if you figure it out!

@@c3sgarage Like yours, mine has a million problems to fix, more probably. It's hard to decide what to work on next.

That will usually be the problem! Let me know how it goes

@@c3sgarage cleaned the ground connection and didn’t notice much of a difference. My gauge behaves weirdly. It never goes below half. It will say full of you put gas in. Put in about 10 gallons and it said it was “full”

@@michaelsoo1396did you figure out the problem, I have the same issue

@@bains1491I ended up replacing the entire fuel sending unit with a part from eBay! The arm wasn’t sending the right voltage to the gauge. The new arm works well. Taking off the fuel lines from the sending unit was a pain in the ass though.

Sorry to hear that but hoping you were able to install and get it running Sometimes I wonder how ppl sell on ebay… no steering wheel ? I wonder what the thought behind it was when they sold you a steering column with no way to drive it 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hey man, these are patriot short tube headers, i wouldn’t say it was hard but took some time to get the stock ones out. One thing that I do not like about these patriots is that there is no clearance to remove the spark plugs and I have ran into burnt wires once or twice. I guess it comes with the territory. Other than this, I love them

Hello! What are you referring to? And how can I help ? 😃

James, thanks for watching, yeah my first thought would he to try prying out the ground and testing ground connection, as you can tell mines was rusted hence why it was not working. If its showing half a tank, then my next step would be to try and check the float as it may be stuck, these are old cars and things get rusty, gunky and fragile, and lastly I would recommend checking your sending unit as these fail and may need full replacement. Best of lucks

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@@c3sgarage thank you

Are you referring to the 3 clips going into the radio?

No, the actual ground wire. After you take off the rubber boot, then you said you managed to take off the ground, but how did you do that.

OHHH! Super easy! But it is holding by a teeth under so I would either use a small plier to get it off gently. You can always use force without pulling the cable but the plastic terminal and if it breaks, just replace it with a new one.

Just checked it does!