talking about weird problems....

[urquattro]

> Speaking of weird problems, my gas gauge (which at present decided it
doesn't want to
> work), was acting kinda funky one night.  As I was driving home, it would
slowly fall
> to E (about a 10 second timing), then rapidly rise to full, then slowly
descend to E
> again, and quickly rise to full...  It did this over and over again for
about 20
> minutes, until I shut the car off.  Any ideas?  Now the gauge just doesn't
work at all.

... on the V8 the instrument cluster has OBD built in ... check:

    http://www.sjmautotechnik.com/ecufv8.html#instout

... run the test that verifies the function of the fuel gauge ... if the
test fails it is the gauge ... if the test passes it is in the connection to
the sender or the sender itself.  One thing that may indeed be true is that
it is a interconnect on the IC itself ...

HTH!
Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)