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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 12:49 AM
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Ok, last night I filled up my car to where the pump stops.....plus a little like I normally do. I get in my car, look down at the guage and it shows a little less than full, whereas normally it would be pegged out. So I'm like no big deal, maybe the pump shut off before it was full like it does sometimes, so I blow it off. Today I drove about 60 miles and the guage shows a little more than 3/4 of a tank, being normal for my car after 60 miles. I pull up at a friends house and it still shows 3/4 of a tank. Then as I'm leaving, it still shows the same, then all of a sudden, it drops to below 1/2 a tank, so I'm like WTF is up w/ my car????? I'm watching the guage the whole way home and it slowly went back up to 3/4 of a tank. It doesn't make it there since he doesn't live too far from my house. So I'm like WTF is going on w/ POS????????

I'm thinking it's either the fuel pump, sending unit, or the cluster.

Any ideas??????????? Help is greatly appreciated. Damn my car sucks!!!! One thing after another.
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 01:29 AM
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The car does have a cam in it w/o a tune, but I know this is not the lack of a tune, since I have been getting decent gas mileage since it went in. Getting tuned next week.
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 11:54 AM
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Sounds like a fuel sender problem to me. Maybe from
bad fuel (sulfur content hoses up new-style senders
somehow?)?
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Old Jul 29, 2004 | 12:01 PM
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Yah, I was fiuguring it was the sending unit or the guage over the actaul pump itself.
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Old Jul 30, 2004 | 12:42 AM
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My car did that along time ago, the dealership replaced my PCM...

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