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A friend of mine who has his own shop checked out my 5.0 today because the fuel gauge is not working. He said I need to replace the harness that plugs into the back of the cluster that controls the fuel gauge?? What is the name of this "harness"

 

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The anti-slosh module??


http://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/777863-fuel-gauge-problem.html

 

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Thats what i thought but he said no, it is the harness that plugs into the cluster

 

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there is a small circut board(chip board)that plugs into the back of the clusters

 

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Did he say the voltage regulator board? I think if that goes out then all your gauges would be acting funny.

 

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Only problems I've every had with the harness on our clusters, are the stupid copper folded contacts. If they bend forward, guess what! no connection. And a nice little $200 wasted for the tech to simply fold the strip back over and voila! working connection and guages. Had this happen a few times to me with my check engine light. Then I glued the darn thing down. No prob since... but i'm not saying its the harness, just giving my info.

 

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apollo12 said:

there is a small circut board(chip board)that plugs into the back of the clusters

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All he said was harness, im assuming he could have meant the harness that is attached to the instrument cluster circuit board?

 

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apollo12 said:

there is a small circut board(chip board)that plugs into the back of the clusters

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Can you please post a picture of what you are talking about so i may take alook at it

 

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ineeda5.0 said:

Can you please post a picture of what you are talking about so i may take alook at it

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See LiquidGT's post:

http://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/741436-fuel-gauge-always-full.html

 

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Is he suggesting you replace the entire dash harness?? Is it damaged?

Can you ask him why he feels the dash harness needs to be replaced to fix a faulty fuel gauge?

WHat year is your car?

 

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90 bux for the regulator from LRS! :EEK:

 

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you know i have the same problem in my mustang, the fuel gauge is always past full... the guy i bought the car from told me it was the dash cluster, and that in the truck there was a dash cluster waiting to go into the vehicle, so i swapped out dash clusters and it still does the same thing.....i was just thinking it was a sending unit

 

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Mustang5L5 said:

Is he suggesting you replace the entire dash harness?? Is it damaged?

Can you ask him why he feels the dash harness needs to be replaced to fix a faulty fuel gauge?

WHat year is your car?

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Its an 89 lx, He checked out the fuel sending unit with a multimeter and said it was reading fine, i dont think hes talking about the dash harness, i think he means the circuit board attacthed to the cluster which has a small harness... The only harness i could think off is this one on the back of the circuit board...


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