Dead gas gauge

[WV_Outdoorsman]

Guy's my gas guage died on me back in the summer and I haven't found the problem yet. I have an 88 YJ which has the guage cluster that all comes out in one piece. I took it out and checked it. It seems to be ok. I cleaned the ribbon connector and reinstalled, same problem. My next shot at fixing this is checking the ground back at the tank. If not this I am leaning to the sending unit. It worked when I bought the jeep one day it quit working so I tapped the guage and it came up and worked for a bit then went out again. Do the guages go bad? Anyone have any better ideas for me.

Thanks,
WVO

[vajeeper]

The guage on my YJ (90) is bad also. It reads full when I fill it up and 200 miles later reads half a tank when it's empty. After some research and talking to people, I found at that they are notorious for acting up. When I got it, I filled it up, grabbed a 5 gallon fuel can, reset the trip odometer to zero and drove it until it completely ran out of gas. I noted the mileage on my trip odometer and now use that as my gas guage.

I am sure some of the guy here that have been around Jeeps for awhile can tell you more about them.

[TexCJ7]

it is almost always the sending unit

[WV_Outdoorsman]

Thanks guy's for the input. I guess I'll takle it when the weather warms up.

WVO

[WV_Outdoorsman]

Oops, sorry I put this in the wrong category to start with. I actually attempted to move it but couldn't figure it out.

Thanks,
WVO

[rsqfe]

This is a good site for CJ gas gauge problems. It might help.
http://www.jeeptech.com/electrical/gauges/