non-working gas and temperature gauges

[Gary.Schmidt]

Hello,
Has anyone had both the gas and temperature gauges to not work? I bought a 1994 Ranger with 128,000 and they both were not working. Would there be a relay or something controlling both?

 

[arco777]

Welcome to the forum! Might be a loose connection at the gauge cluster. You can verify both gauges all the way to the sender with a multimeter set to resistance mode, at various points up to the gauge. Sometimes the pins on the gauges don't make good contact, or the printed circuit contacts do not make a good connection with the cluster harness connectors.

 

[bigbadwolf078]

Any luck on your problem? I've got the same issue plus my oil gauge is possessed lol, been driving it for two years like this so I know its nothing but electrical

 

[Gary.Schmidt]

Non-working gas and temp gauge.

I haven't worked on the gauges, my transmission went out. Went to Pull A Part got a transmission out of one of their Rangers and it had the same problem as mine. Found a new input shaft assembly and countershaft on Ebay for $95.00 so that is what I am going to do as I don't want to pull another transmission in February.

 

[vq5speed]

Well if the fuses are not blown then for the gas its probably the brass float is taking in gas and the float sinks in the tank this is a common problem. As for the water gauge there is a Sender located just under the upper water neck. The sender has a thin threaded bolt with a single wire attached to the top. The wire could of broke of just came off.