fuel gauge

anybody having problems with there fuel gauge on a 700 rhino... the whole weekind mine said empy and when it got under half a tank it flashed... had another 700 riding with me and his was just fine ... anybody heard anything like that

as silly as it sounds, try running some chevron fuel in it, it has tecrolene in it, this will lube up the little shaft the float works from. works on the Arctic cat when I had problems. worth a try..

My 660 has acted up like that a few times. Has not done it in a long while though. Dont have a clue why.

The float swells and can cause some stickyness.

ridepate wrote:

The float swells and can cause some stickyness.

anyway 2 unstick it or just live with it .. its no biggy just annoying and if i really was out of gas it could get bad

The fuel gauges in my rhino behaved the same way. I removed the fuel pump, then removed the float arm. If you do this, you'll see that there are 2 tiny electric leads, for lack of a better description, that move in an arc with the float arm. I bent those little leads about a sixteenth of an inch to put them in good contact with the gauge sending unit. I also used a clean lint free cloth to clean the surface of the leads and the surface that they contact.

I apologize for the lack of the proper terms. But this worked. My fuel gauge is 100% accurate now. DO NOT BEND THE FLOAT. YOU AREN'T ADJUSTING ANYTHING. This whole thing took me less than 30 minutes.

Gil

Good info Gil.

Yank wrote:

Good info Gil.

Thanks Yank. I can't take credit for it. I found this info on a Grizzly forum. Works like a charm.

Gil