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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> It's not leaking fuel and no black smoke out
the exhaust and it has great pickup and maybe 40k on the engine. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> I fixed the issue with the fuel gauge jumping
when I tapped the dash the gauge used to jump . </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> The odometer works and does the trip meter.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> I have not filled it yet three months ago
after I did the gauge the needle was just below 1/4 tank and I put in 7 gallons
and it was just at the full mark . I know if I fill it the needle as above full
. All the driving I do is less the 35 MPH and all stop and go and here that
means sitting in traffic and most trips are 2 miles round trip at most. Once
every 4 onths I drive a 20 mile round trip yet it's still street traffic same
speeds and stop and go.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> I did notice the full gauge when I start
the car will read a bit over 1/4 tank then it will change to say 1/8 tank and
then it's back to 1/4 tank. I suppose this is because for a long time I never
had mare than a 1/2 tank in it. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> The other day it the needle stayed just
below 1/4 tank and I had 63 miles on it and I got gas as it turned out it was
6.67 gallons just a bit less than 4 months ago lets say 7 gallons
from just below 1/4 mark to just blow the full mark. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> This is not an accurate way to check
MPG I know yet if the gauge is right then I got 10 MPG all 35 MPH stop and
go and I keep the auot trans in 2nd because that's about the speed it will shift
into 3rd if I let up on the gas and no point in all the extra trans shifting .
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> It runs great and in the last 10 years I
have never paid any attention to MPG because it runs well and I don't drive much
maybe 350 miles a year. The only reason I added the 7 gallons was to see if the
gauge would work up to the full mark and to see how it worked after I fixed the
loose connection at the black plug on the gauge cluster , the tab to the gauge
lead was loose on the rivet so I had a spare plug which I cleaned and that one
was tight. All of them were tight. I always knew before the gauge would jump
from the red area to empty and if I tapped the dash near the gauge if it did not
come up I knew I was almost out of gas. I always filled it when it was between
the red and 1/4 tank mark. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> My question is off the wall because most
people drive freeways or highways and last time I did was 52 miles round trip
and I used maybe 1/16 of a tank. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> 10 MPG seems real low yet the engine is not
hot on such short trips add in all the sitting and stop and go. In 1991 when we
still had leaded fuel I drive from Hollywood ,CA to Los Vegas on a full tank and
close to 300 miles and still had a 1/4 tank when I got there so it got great
milage that was with a tired engine and 116* temps. There were a few good long
climbs getting there. Had the same results on the trip back. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Has anyone else driven just short trips like
me and had low MPG? As I said I never really kept track of MPG just on how
the engine ran. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> All I can do now is I wrote down the odometer
reading and always set the trip meter to all zeros when I get gas so I can check
the odometer yet the trip meter does seems to read proper. I did check the
gauge at 0 ohms and 90 ohms and it reads full and empty yet at 0 ohms it does
not go past full as it does when I fill the tank . I have 2 gauges and both did
the same yet the one I have always used the little needle stop at the full end
allows the needle to go past the full mark . I didn't change the gauge because I
know how this one reacts. </FONT></DIV>
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