I was wondering if anyone can tell me the best way to calibrate the fuel gauge after replacing the needle? when truck is off, the gauge needle hangs at about 6 o'clock, just wondering if I should pull it off and rotate it to "E" when key is off, or is there a better way???
peg the gauge with a battery source and then put the needle on where a pegged gauge would be
i dont recall where that would be tho, someone maybe has a gauge they could peg off a truck to help? mines doing a whole lotta nothing but its in my dash so i dont really want to remove that
Another option is to have the gauge wired as if its empty on the sender, so.. ground...? I cant remember how that works, but when the gauge is powered, with a "empty" reading, the needle should be before E slightly. When you hit E, the idea is to have a slight amount of gas, then when key off, it usually will stay near the spot, but drift a little back toward e, so it would go below e, i believe. on an older vehicle, that is. FUll would be slighlty past F most likely.
