Deere342
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- Derbyshire
The fuel gauge on my John Deere 2140 has taken to reading full to the brim recently. Is this going to be a bad earth? Worn through wiring somewhere? Has always worked well until recently.
So float is floating on the diesel.Disconnect sender, see if it goes down?
If so, the fault is in the sender, probably a worn wiper/pot.
If it stays up, you are correct the copper, in the wire has touched the tin work, wiggle the loom with a mate watching the gauge, you might see it going down.
Yes wiggled the loom a bit where I could. Temperature guage moves usually stays on cool though never had get hot on gauge.So it sounds like the "live" wire is touching the steel bodywork ..........
Did you wiggle the loom?
And as a matter of interest is the temperature gauge is as it should be?
Yes the dash is a bit of a law unto itself on the SG2!Definitely sounds as though the sender wire from the tank to the gauge is touching earth, could be under the dash, roundy cab?
Some of the other lads might know of a known fault with the loom ............