stuck gas gauge

[Guest]

does anyone know why my gas gauge is stuck and reading full when empty? It happened after I took off the tank to change the vacuum tube

[tkent02]

Did you reconnect the wires correctly?

[SHEM]

I really am not sure. Do you mean backwards?

[tkent02]

Follow the color coded wires. I don't think they can be reversed, the male female thing only goes one way and I don't think it would matter anyway. Maybe you got a horn wire by mistake? Showing full is too much current flowing, like maybe a horn ground instead of the sensor wire. Or somehow it's shorted to ground. The tank pinched a wire against the frame or something? Could have got the neutral wire or something. Dunno.

The color codes will keep you straight if the wiring hasn't been POed.

Just guessing here, I don't have your bike here to look at.

[SHEM]

thanks for your reply. You don't happen to be in WA state?

[tkent02]

Not today.