chrysler fuel gauge

Hi everyone, i have grand voyager 2001 3.3 limited when driving along fuel
gauge is all over the place and doesn't read right. As anyone got any
ideas please.

 

The float sender in the tank is a known trouble-maker in late 90s vans. My
98 has this problem once in a while. BTW the last year for production of the
Voyager and the Plymouth brand in general was 1999, so I presume yours is
actually a Caravan.

 

My 96 did the same thing. When it got to half tank it would drop to
empty set off the chime, back to half etc. You have to drop the tank,
take out the fule pump module, and replace the sender. It's not a bad
job. The hardest part is seperating the fule and vent lines.
dave

 

My '96 Town and Country did the same thing. The level would drop to
zero, the pleasing chime would chime, the level would go back to normal
then repeat this cycle with annoying frequency. If it wasn't for the
damn chime, you could pretty much live with it. While contemplating what
to do, the problem "cured itself" and has not returned in about the last
100,000 miles.

Maybe the OP will get lucky too.

Ken

 

Same here on my '99, but it didn't cure itself. I changed out the
sender. Not a bad job. You'll need some kind of a strap wrench to
reconnect the tank cap (if it is like the '99). I tried a spanner,
couldn't get it tight enough to stop leaking. Strap wrench did the
trick.

I was going to just disconnect the annoying chime and go without,
however, was told can't be done because of the solid state nature of
the instrument cluster. Don't know if that is true or not.

Also told that a gas additive caused it. Seems like there is a class
action suit on it. I got a notice of some sort about participation.

Frank

 

If you were inclined to do that, you could use a resistor between the
sender wire (accessible under the dash) and ground to fake a tank level
reading to the BCM.

Yeah, Frank - probably you read about the Shell fiasco in Canada - some
bad gas messed up people's fuel gage senders. However, that happened
more than a couple of years ago.

Bill Putney
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