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the yamaha fuel gauge is reading full all the time. checked the wires and they look good, took the sending unit out of the tank and moved the float up & down with no change to the reading on the gauge, it still registered full.....
please help.....
Re: yamaha fuel gauge reads full all the time.....
jim....were you asking me or the OP.....if it was me. I dont know if its full...it doesnt work but I have put in 250.00 about 65 gallons which should have added about 3 bars out of the 8 and it did not change at all.....I now calculate my usage with my flow manager.
Re: yamaha fuel gauge reads full all the time.....
exactly.....just dont get to used to it....."yea sea tow....my guage says full but the engines sputtered and will not start" haha. marine fuel guages SUCK!! if you dont have a flow meter I suggest getting one and calculating your usage....well it calculates for you you just have to keep track of how much is in there. good luck
Re: yamaha fuel gauge reads full all the time.....
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Surfhunter - 8/21/2007 1:22 AM
Check the wire connections for corrosion
and power.get a fuel flow meter the only true way to know how much fuel you have and use.take only a couple hours to install in your boat "no wires to fish"
RE: yamaha fuel gauge reads full all the time.....
The Yamaha gauge can accept inputs of more than one ohms range. If it's a new installation you may need to adjust the dip switches. Or if there are no dipswitches swap the white and the white/blue wires. Did that sender and gauge work before?
RE: yamaha fuel gauge reads full all the time.....
yes, I already checked the wiring, it is all in tip top shape, I removed the sending unit from the tank, and that looks like it was brand new, but working the float up & down did nothing to the gauge reading....gauge still read full like when you first turn the ignition on.....
Re: yamaha fuel gauge reads full all the time.....
Disconnect both wires, guage should slowly drop down to empty, if it goes to complete empty touch the two wires from the guage together and the guage should go to full slowly one bar at a time. If this does not happen try it again closer to the guage, if it still does not work it is the guage. If it does work both at the tank and behind the guage it is the sender, and if it works behind the guage and not at the tank it is the wires.
I know this is an old post but I'd like to thank those which contributed information. I just purchased a Grady and I was having the same problem with the gauge reading full. The bad part of the story is I had to find out the hard way. I ran out of fuel on it's maiden voyage, but luckily I was only 200 yards from the boat launch, rather than 6 miles out.
Anyway, after reading this post I found that when I disconnected the fuel sending unit it would still read full. When I disconnected the positive lead from the gauge it would read empty. I then decided to run a wire from the positive lead on the fsu directly to the gauge. It now properly reads the fuel level. All I have to do now is fish a new wire back to the sending unit. Thanks for the help
If you disconnect the sender wire ( the one that connectes the sender to the guage, pink perhaps) the guage will read empty.
Now connect the sender wire at the tank to a good ground. The guage should read full. If it doesn't you have a bad wire, bad connection or bad guage.
If it does you have a bad connection at the tank, a bad sender, or a bad tank ground.
1) Obtain some weatherproof black plastic material. Preferably self adhering
2) Carefully measure the diameter of your marine fuel gauge
3) Using that measurement carefully cut the black plastic material obtained in step 1 to the exact same size as the face of the fuel gauge
4) Using extreme care to get a good seal place the black plastic disc obtained in step 3 over the marine fuel gauge
5) Use caution to insure a good good coverage so that nothing on the face of the gauge is visible
That somebody was a fool. And yes, I know that you are just joking. At least I hope that you are.
Just like folks that curse the darkness, rather than turn on a light, there are those that will curse fuel quantity systems without doing a damn thing to fix the problem.
yamaha fuel gauge reads full all the time..... 
