1992 240 sedan gas gauge drops below empty

sant92 · Post by **sant92** » 31 Jul 2015, 13:57

Hello- was wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why my gas gauge will intermittently drop to below dead empty, sometimes while I'm driving. It will stay stuck at the bottom, sometimes for a few days/weeks, then suddenly start giving what I assume are correct readings again? Thought it had resolved itself because it hadn't happened in months but today I was watching my gas at a quarter tank, and looked up and the needle was below empty again, and seems to be staying there. I definitely have gas in the tanks. Could an overloaded trunk compartment ( it's a sedan) have anything to do with it?Thanks for the time.

93Regina · Post by **93Regina** » 31 Jul 2015, 17:16

sant92 wrote:ideas as to why my gas gauge will intermittently drop to below dead empty

I have a similar condition: 1993-240: Electrical SNAFU

I've never yank out the the instrument cluster from the dash, but most have a ribbon cable, which do fail here/there, and the issue might be on power-feed side so no power is sent to these instruments.

Yours sounds simple...I'd clean up terminals at fuel tank first where connectors are located...just spray some electrical contact cleaner on them, and clean the ground terminal.

It's either in tank area, or in the instrument cluster area.