Just bought a 96 Ram 1500 on Saturday, and its been very nice so far except for one problem. The gas Gauge isnt completely accurate at all. When the throttle is hit, the gauge goes down to Empty, but when I brake, it jumps up to full.
Is there a sloution to this besides getting a new tank?

And I still have a quarter of a tank, but it says empty. It stays on full for the first 48 miles, then drops down to 0 within 40 miles. Its like the gauge is too small to read the fuel level correctly. Any suggestions for my issue?

 

Check all the grounds. From battery you should have one large one to engine block, one to fender, one to frame, and one from pass side head to firewall. Not sure if there is on at gas tank. But faulty grounds have been known to cause such gremlins.

 

I'll go with the sending unit on the fuel pump, but only way to know is test the resistance, which requires removing the bed or dropping the tank.

 

mine did kinda the same thing it ended up just being the float but i replaced the whole fuel pump cost 250 and spent 3.5 hours on it