Fuel Gauge Tank Selector switch and valve

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1984 K10 - two new tanks. Two new fuel sending units. One is an ac delco the other is from LMC. Ground from battery to frame and then to sending unit is good.

Fuel gauge is stuck at 9:00.

Fuel selector valve moves between the two tanks but doesn’t run correct on the passenger side as it will only idle and drive around slow - any throttle demand and it dies. Assuming I should replace selector switch first and then possibly the selector valve?

Can the switch and or valve cause my fuel gauge issue? The pink/black stripe wire is not carrying any resistance up to the gauge.
 

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Fuel gauge at 9 all the time or only with passenger tank?


The pink/black stripe wire is not carrying any resistance up to the gauge.
Usually PNK/BLK goes to valve (from passenger tank sender) and from valve the PNK goes to gauge.

edited to include wiring diagram-just in case.
 

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Thanks. Yea I meant all pink. The fuel gauge is at 9:00 all the time with either tank selected.

I feel like the sending wires in the tank valve are not connecting to the pink wire. Can you pull the plug and jump a green wire from tank sending unit to the pink wire running up to the dash to see?
 

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>>>> Can the switch and or valve cause my fuel gauge issue?

Not the Switch I dont think, but the valve... Yes. The Valve has the contacts in it for the sender selection. I did two new tanks as well, and I thought I was out of luck getting the gauge to work. But, I switched the tank valve back and forth a dozen times, listening for the moto in the valve to run. And, my gauges started working ! I think the contacts in the valve were dirty and moving them in and out, they must have cleaned up. Now I switch between tanks every fill up to keep things moving.

If they were not going to clean up, I probably would have run the two tank sender wires up front and put in a temporary switch that would feed the pink wire until I could save up for a new valve.
 

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I had nothing but problems when I first got my K20 dual tank.
Bad wiring was first- wires everywhere. Bad ground. Finally said to hell with it and did two new tanks, two new sending units and all new wiring. Kaching$. but she works now
 

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Can you pull the plug and jump a green wire from tank sending unit to the pink wire running up to the dash to see?
PNK/BLK or PNK/WHT (depending which tank you are checking) could be jumped directly to the PNK wire.

The sender controls the current going to ground. The more current going to ground the more the gauge heads towards “Empty”. Unplugging the PNK wire completely should send the gauge past full (3 o’clock)

Here is a good video explaining how to diagnose a gauge
LINK - fuel gauge diagnose
 
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Gauge stuck at 9 o'clock means you have an open circuit, so something isn't connected/broken wire/etc.

I fought mine for a while before finding it was a bad dash selector switch.
 

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