SMR#002

iTrader: (9)

Fuel gauge sits past full when I start the car, eventually after driving it goes back to normal. Is there something that im going to have to replace soon? sending unit? car is a 99 Camaro ss

98TAProject

does it do this every time or only when you have a full tank of fuel?

dailydriver

Mine also does this and I believe it is the actual gauge itself IN the instrument cluster, and NOT the sending unit in the tank, since I just replaced the WHOLE/COMPLETE in tank fuel module assembly, and it still does this.

Mine will go to a normal reading if you tap the actual gauge in the corner of the cluster, does yours do this as well??

SMR#002

iTrader: (9)

It does it every time I start it. Once I start driving, it goes back to normal

dailydriver

Next time you start it up and it is all the way to the right, way past the full mark, try tapping fairly hard on the cluster bezel plastic cover right over the fuel gauge, and see if it springs back to the correct reading.

If it does this, then it is the actual gauge itself and not anything back in the tank.

SMR#002

iTrader: (9)

oooo thanks now if it is the gauge would I be able to fix just the fuel gauge or would I need a whole new cluster?

dailydriver

That I do not know, but I suspect it would be a whole new cluster given the way these cars are, and I personally would not bother with it at all (unless someone could sell me one with the airbag led already surgically removed from it, since I have an aftermarket wheel with NO airbag).

spy2520

iTrader: (3)

could probably just glue in a little stop to prevent it from doing that. Mine only ever did this when the battery was dead and it needed a jump start.

SMR#002

iTrader: (9)

that actually seems like a good idea. that wouldn't damage the gear or whatever you want to call it that the needle rotates around? idk if it would keep trying to go past full but the stopper would be blocking it so it would have sort of a grinding effect

spy2520

iTrader: (3)

From what i've seen it just kinda jumps up there and gets stuck, it doesn't keep pushing does it?

dailydriver

I am wondering if the cluster gauges use a 'clock spring' type device in them, since when mine goes all the way to the right at start up, it sort of 'springs' back into the correct position when I tap it??