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hello all
another cry for help just got the car on the road but the fuel gauge does not work, I have traced the wire back from the tank and it has got an earth to it, the question is does anyone know the colour of the wire to the live feed to the other side of the gauge, it is a three clock dash so all the wires go into a plug with about twelve wires to it as all the clocks are like a circuit board, would look in the manual but its 50 miles away
thanks in advance

Hi,
White or possibly green.
Have you earthed the green /black on rhe tank to see if the the guage goes up?
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hi
ive swoped the wires on the tank and it goes right to the top, my mate at the MOT place said it was working then stopped, he says the wire to the tank is pulsing so that makes me think the live feed is not right
but dont know witch one is the feed, dont want to keep disconecting wires needlesly
thanks

Hi,
It will pulse if it's the old type of regulator (feeds the guages)
If you've swapped the wires and it goes to the top, then the sender unit is 99% going to be the problem, assuming you have a good earth on the black wire.
You can get another sender and just connect it to the wires and test it before pulling the old one out.
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thanks bar will try that first

have you put new clocks in? my mini's fuel gauge goes past full and past empty before it runs out! with my old guages it was fine

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no they are the original gauges carnt understand it working then just stop

I'm having a problem with mine too. Just got the car on the road and the petrol gauge doesn't work.

However the water temp gauge sometimes goes off the scale at the top, majority of the time its ok though. I've just been to the petrol station and filled the car up, on the way back both the petrol and water temp gauges where off the top of the scale!!

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I thought it might be the voltage stabiliser?

Rich do u have the 3 clock dash ? As mine did this a while ago and it was the plug at the back where it went in to the PCB it move some of the PCB pick ups and all hell broke loose. Just make sure its plugged in correctly and no sitting skew or somethin
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Do the later 3 clock dashes have voltage regulators?

hello
just an update had some one around to check the wiring pulled the plug off the clocks and checked the wire to the tank no pulsing plugged it back in and it was pulsing again so he told me it was the gauge, anyway brought some new gauges and changed the whole lot sircuit board and all and it still does not work p####d of, got to be the sender like bat said
what do you all think

Hi,
Rich, that'll be a bad earth in the boot
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On 6th Jul, 2008 Bat said:
Hi,
Rich, that'll be a bad earth in the boot
Cheers,
Gavin :)

Edited by richminiturbo. on 6th Jul, 2008.

Hi,
there should be a clump of black wires bolted to the rear light IIRC. Crap place for an earth in my opinion.
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