How accurate is your gas gauge ?

[claupie]

I went out 3 times before i filled it up again.
My gauge dint move from''F'' till the 2nd ride.And then it started to come down.After the 3rd time out it was reading between 1/2 and 3/4,went to fill it up and it took 21 gals,and the gas tank can hold 30 gals,the gauge should have read just a little over 1/4..Is it normal,if not can it be ajusted?
Thanks.

 

[john lamon]

I replaced the sending unit in my tank last fall and it worked good until I pushed the boat pretty hard on a windy choppy day, I don't know if that's what caused it to stop working properly or not, now when the tank is full it reads 3/4 and when it hits empty on the gauge I still have almost half a tank. I don't think there is any adjustment but not sure. I just fill it every time I go out now because it's always on empty, lol.

 

[Mr. Buss]

i have never owned a boat with a gas guage worth a hoot...... They all work but, Not accurately. The senator filled right to the top reads about 3/4 tank... and a about 1/2 tank says emtpy. Probably has the wrong will-fit sender in it or something..

 

[bravo 1]

my pulsare goes to full when I fill it but at the end of the day it will say 1/4 tank and it only takes 12 to 13 gallons to fill.

clauipie, your pulsare only has a 30 gallon tank my 2005 will hold 38 gallons

 

[nightrider21]

Hook a smartcraft monitor to that XS and put a picture of your kids over the gas gauge.

 

[jtaj77]

Mine doesn't really have a rhyme or reason to the way it works.

 

[jazzy]

mine works great i moves so freely from F to E no but seriously the angle of the boat changes so much from idle to wot that it really is an artform to read it accurately

 

[TheNerd]

Mine is all over the place, but the tank is white kinda see through plastic, so I can see where the gas is.

 

[keith4216]

Mine is the same. i can fill it up all the way up the tube and it says 3/4. It will stay there forever but once it starts moving it goes alot faster then I would like. I just always fill full every time.

 

[fireguy]

Mine is the same. i can fill it up all the way up the tube and it says 3/4. It will stay there forever but once it starts moving it goes alot faster then I would like. I just always fill full every time.

Same here, so I too fill it every time before we go out, i would just like to have a little better idea of what is really going on. We are going to take a 170 mile (one way) trip in late August or September so I would really like to have a better idea by then. Oh well, I know we are planning to make a fuel stop once each way anyway...

 

[winter]

Friggin terrible! Brand new autometer marine gauge and new sender, clean tank etc... Filled the tank and the gauge stayed pegged full for 2 hours of run down and then dropped like a rock over the next hour to 1/4 and then seemingly registered correctly. Can't win here, just gotta be in touch with your fuel usage

 

[caddman]

mine is horrible also.....enough said

 

[happy]

Livorsi Marine tank sender is the way to go, Its not a float arm or "floating magnet" type sender, it reads pressure, you adjust it at empty, then full, and it is accurate, I havn't seen a guage that it wouldn't work with.

 

[xsive]

Livorsi Marine tank sender is the way to go, Its not a float arm or "floating magnet" type sender, it reads pressure, you adjust it at empty, then full, and it is accurate, I havn't seen a guage that it wouldn't work with.

Close. It is a capacitive sender and is 9000 times better than any float sender you will find. Here is the link. I have one and it works well.

http://www.livorsi.com/catalog/senders.htm#fuellevel

 

[happy]

Thanks, I know it works and is accurate, I run them in all my boats, I have 5 of these senders, and all read correct.

 

[fireguy]

I gotta save this thread, cuz this winter I mat have another project...