I started up this morning, and in the initial glance at the cluster, it was fine, then I didn't actually have the stereo on, it may be coincidence and nothing to do with it, but my ears did pick up on an odd noise like a spring losing tension and 'pinging,' but thought nothing of it, unitl a minute or two later I saw......... the fuel gauge needle well past the full mark.
I do have another cluster that I acquired that has exactly the same thing with the fuel gauge, and I assumed someone had damaged it when adding and removing gauges before me, maybe even by removing the needle.
It stays like it whether the ignition is on or off, doesn't appear to react to anything, and in my mind the gauge must work via a sprung tension on the needle, or would it be a resistor? As the gauge isn't instant on start up, it takes time to move up to the correct position.
Either way, I've got another to replace it with, and that might be a good idea sometime soon, considering I've still not fixed the mileage recorder, so I can't even reset the trip clock when I refuel to keep a rough idea of mileage covered!
But I'm interested in how it works and more importantly why it happens, and how many other people have come across it, if it's a lost cause, then I won't bother playing about with it one day. So, I might fill the Foggy can up for now, until I get chance to fix both problems at once!
Pete
For the sake of starting a riot, anyone got a green book diagram?
