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Help with my gas gauge being off by a 1/4 tank

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Old 03-28-2010, 05:01 PM
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Default Help with my gas gauge being off by a 1/4 tank

So I filled up my tank the other day got in and the gas gauge only went up to 3/4 of a tank. So two days later I decided to fill up at another gas station and the same thing again. So I was stumped till today when I noticed that my rear strap on the tank rusted out. So before I fix this should I worry about the gas gauge being off. Will it be correct once the strap is fixed or do I have to worry about getting a new fuel pump?
 
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Old 03-28-2010, 05:26 PM
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is it the ground strap, or the actual strap that holds the tank in place?

My gague does almost the same thing but it stops going down at 1/4 tank, in my case the float is stuck.
 
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Its the actual strap that holds the tank in place. I just dont know if i should be worried if anything else broke when the tank dropped that little bit when the strap broke
 
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Take a ratchet strap and use it to pull the tank back up into place before replaceing the broken tank strap and see if that corrects the issue.

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