Ok, so we installed a brand new Autometer fuel level gauge with correct OHM sweep, and hooked up the gauge signal wire to the DB/WHT sender wire directly off the sender unit. I still do not read any fuel level and I am wondering if maybe my sender {for the gauge} in the tank is bad. It worked perfect just prior to swapping in the 12valve engine so maybe we are doing the wiring incorrectly? Has anyone put an aftermarket gauge in their 24valve truck? If you have, can you please tell me what I am doing wrong....I am at my wits end with this thing.

Can the sender go out just like that with no warning? I have never experienced that kind of problem before so it just does not make any sense to me. How common do these senders go bad?

 

My sending unit went bad twice so far. Thre second gen sending units suck.

Chris

 

I've owned two of these 2nd gen Dodges and BOTH of them had the sender go bad. Both went right around 35,000 miles too.

John

 

ok, so the question is..did it go bad instantly?like the gauge one day stopped reading?or did the needle fluctuate then die?

 

Mine is going dead...It is usually always on the E but sometimes it gets up to a quarter tank until you hit the throttle and it drops back to E. Yeah the sending unit on these things blow.