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[Rob the plumber]

Is it a common issue to have a fuel gauge that bounces around and "ticks"? My temp gauge does it a little bit too, but the fuel gauge is all over the place. I just picked this car up yesterday, so I have a lot to learn.

Thanks!
Rob

[ideola]

Yep. Pretty common. You can address it by cleaning the grounds and also by cleaning the fuel sender, which our own (local to you and I) 924RACR published a how-to on.

Suggestion: list the model year and specific variant of your car (e.g. "1980 NA" for normally aspirate, "1982 931" for a turbo, etc.) in your sig so we all have easy reference to it when you post...guarantee, you'll never remember to remind us in all of your posts

Welcome aboard! There's a few of us here in SE MI...we need to do a fall get together soon...

{EDIT} Oops here's the link to the fuel sender fix: http://www.924.org/techsection/gas_sender.htm
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[Peter_in_AU]

try cleaning the external fuel sensor/float contacts before you pull the sensor out and clean it. A standard problem after all these years.
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1982 924 (As featured on Wikipedia)

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[AlexG]

Also check the condition of the shared earth point along the chassis beam at the rear of the car (i.e. between the rear lights) - after doing everything else I discovered this was where the fault was on mine
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[Peter_in_AU]

Here's the How-To

http://www.924board.org/viewtopic.php?t=24372

There's also instructions about for cleaning the sensor but try the simple stuff first.
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1979 924 (Gone to a better place)
1974 Lotus 7 S4 "Big Valve" Twin-cam (waiting)
1982 924 (As featured on Wikipedia)

Learn to love your multimeter and may the search be with you

[Rob the plumber]

Thanks a lot for the help. I will do as suggested asap and get back with the results.