3rd Gen 4runner Gas Gauge Fixed
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2021
- This video is shot with my phone so I apologize for poor quality. This is on a 99 4runner talking about everything I tried and did to finally fix the gauge i.e the calibration technique, the add a ground, replacing the fuel sender with the update version of it, as well as finally what ACTUALLY fixed my gas gauge was replacing the entire instrument panel.
Gauge cluster problems were a problem with Cherokees (I still have one, switched to a 4Runner recently though for a daily driver). The problem was different types of plastics, and over time between heat and cold cycles of plastics aging and expanding at different rates the connector in the back lost connectivity. I'd bet if you fiddled with the connector for a bit and gave closer inspection you might see the problem. Expect that the one you have now is going to do the same in the future. Depending on where it was sourced from it could be ready to kick the bucket in a few years.
Thanks for the reply, I fiddled and screamed, and cleaned everything put di electric grease on contacts and plugs/connectors. I checked on forums and it was a old service bulletin on these. The back of the panel shorted out and melted the one little spot where the gas gauge signal wire or whatever it was on back on cluster. Im sure it will but gas gauge stopped working at 370 so long as I get another 150k with this one I'd be happy.
Awesome video. I also tried the ground wire trick and it didn't work either. When I did try the ground hack the fuel gauge light wouldn't go out. I am going to try what you suggested before getting pissed. This is my wife car and she wont give it up. I even bought her a new BMW x5 twin turbo, she sold it to car max 24 months later. What is she driving? 1996 toyota turd. Why? Because woman are crazy. My grand pops was a smart man. Sitting in his pickup truck on the ranch waiting for the cattle to come down to fee, he said grandson I will teach you two of the most valuable things in life and you will live longer and happier because of it, I was about 10 at the time. He handed me his can of Copenhagen and said here take pitch so I did, Thought I was bad ass Like Grand dad until I swallow a bit and puked my brains out. Grand pop said lesson 1 this horse shit will kill you, stay away from it. lesson 2 Grandson, a happy wife is happy life remember that. We found grand pop hunched over dead in his pickup out in one of our fields few years later. He didnt take his nitro pills with him. His truck got stuck in the field so he tried to dig himself out and had a heart attack.