Hi everyone. My temperature guage is showing a different reading according to how much gas is in my tank. When it's full, my temp needle is a little past 1/3, but below the 1/2 mark. When my tank is 1/2 full and below, the needle is at 1/3. Any reason why it does this?

Oh I forgot to add, the only things I've done to the car was put the RB powerpulse air intake setup and removed the rat's nest.

 

Good God man, what the hell have you been smoking?!?!?

 

It does seem like a stretch. Make sure this is a real correlation, ie see that it happens all the time, not just once or twice, which would just make it a coincidence.

It's real easy to observe a coincidence and think something weird is going on, recently I had a weak battery connection that gave out two times in a row while the car was sitting in the drive overnight. Each time the clock stopped at exactly 1:02 am. I was getting really weirded out but the third time it happened at a different time and I was reassured the 7 wasn't haunted.

So it was just coincidence, maybe helped along by dropping nighttime temps affecting the battery connection, but not information that's going to help a diagnosis.

Temp control can be pretty funny sometimes, the temp guage on my white GSL is fluctuating kind of like you describe, between 1/3 and 1/2 on the guage, and I can't figure out why. I've replaced the thermostat two or three times, no fluid leaks and a fairly new replacement radiator, so I'm just learning to live with it.

But come to think of it, removing the rat's nest is a great opportunity to **** all kinds of things up, you don't have an overflow line from the tank or carb running into your exhaust system or something like that, do you?

Ray

 

No I don't. Well maybe it's just coincidence. It's been running fine without problems so I'll just leave it at that then.