Gas Gauge Sampling Intervals?
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Gas Gauge Sampling Intervals?
I have a 1988 Dakota with a gas gauge that really pisses me off. I'll take a ride one town over and back and the gas gauge barley moved then I get in it later and after a 2 min trip to the store it drops an entire "bar" so it must take a reading every so many minutes or something?? I want a more accurate gas reading, my gauge does not drop if I'm going uphill for an extended period of time with a small amount of gas in the tank so it must not be continuously sampling? I know that it IS sampling though obviously. Any thoughts?
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Great... I just had that tank out and last time I did it I couldn't smoke a cigarette for like the whole afternoon; I drank a lot of gas lol. The float was on the bottom on the tank and I had to put it back on but the crush washer was missing so I bent the tip of the rod it sits on up since it had a lot of side to side play anyway.
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The only guages that are controlled by or related to the computer are the tach and the speedometer although since yours is an 88 i believe your speedometer is cable driven. all other guages are directly wired and have nothing to do with the computer on these 1st gen dakotas. Even the coolant temp guage has a separate sensor from the computer. Sorry for all that extra unecessary stuff lol. but my point is there is no sampling rate on these it is continuous all the time.
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The only guages that are controlled by or related to the computer are the tach and the speedometer although since yours is an 88 i believe your speedometer is cable driven. all other guages are directly wired and have nothing to do with the computer on these 1st gen dakotas. Even the coolant temp guage has a separate sensor from the computer. Sorry for all that extra unecessary stuff lol. but my point is there is no sampling rate on these it is continuous all the time.
I probably have some bad contacts on the potentiometer now you mention it did look a bit rough when I saw it a few months ago.