Wengerd Fuel System: Who's running it?? Have a question..

[MostHated5.0]

Before I had my Lawn Racing/Wengerd fuel system installed, I could see where my "miles to empty" number would decrease once the tank got lower than 1/4 of a tank. Now since the install, if I get to 50 miles left in tank, the fuel gauge then drops to empty and the number on the dash drops to 0.

Is this standard with all aftermarket systems or is something wrong with the sending unit I installed? Before with the stock hat, it would steadily drop and not go from 50 to empty within a second. Wondering if this done to keep from running it too low and starving for fuel or what.. Anyone else running this system experiencing the same thing? And before the comments about running it too low, NO I DON"T DO THAT OFTEN! Just was quite the surprise when it happened to me last week while driving around trying to swap fuels in my tank.

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[Slow Yote]

Are you saying it goes from 50 left, to zero and it stops running? Or the computer just says 0?

 

[Bonedizzle]

I installed mine, only had it on the gas tune for one tank, and everything worked as normal. I ran it down really low before I switched to the E85 tune, and everything was accurate as far as fuel level left in the tank.

 

[MostHated5.0]

Are you saying it goes from 50 left, to zero and it stops running? Or the computer just says 0?

Well I was like a couple miles from home yesterday and I noticed it had 62 miles to empty. Then as I was driving through my neighborhood I happened to look at it again and it said 3 miles to E. Was the second time this has happened. Car never cut off and actually drove it to the gas station after that, like 5 miles away and it never skipped a beat. The first time it happened it reflected 0 miles to E and after driving it through my subdivision, it bounced back up to 52 miles to E and fuel tank registered 1/8 of a tank once again. Craziest thing I have ever seen. Only began doing this after my fuel system install. Bad sending unit, float sticking, fuel level sensor faulty???

 

[MostHated5.0]

I installed mine, only had it on the gas tune for one tank, and everything worked as normal. I ran it down really low before I switched to the E85 tune, and everything was accurate as far as fuel level left in the tank.

Exactly how my stock system worked. Just puzzled as to why my new hat is not registering below 60 miles now.

 

[Bonedizzle]

only thing i can think of is your float might be sticking, causing voltage to drop or skip larger amount close to where the issue is.

I would pull the bucket and just replace the sender with the one on your stock bucket, if you still have it.

 

[daSNAK3]

Either faulty sending unit or its not on the bucket quite right. Check it again.

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