Too much gas in town!

[Rahman]

Hi guys! I have 720's 1985 and the car gets too much gas!! something really weird!! even the gauge of the gas goes down when you push the gas.. and goes slowly up when you take the highway!! is that something normal? if not, how can I fix it? and how much does it cost?

 

thank you guys!

[Rahman]

8 views and no one even gave any idea! :(

[stevensonDNL]

Wow, Rahmen, your very first post! Do you mean your truck USEs (consumes) too much gas? Where on earth are you?

 

Dan

[Rahman]

thank you for replying Dan. yes it consumes a lot of gas! I'm Kansas.

 

You have any about the gage? it goes up and down very slowly! before I bought the car, many people told me that it's a really saver gas! but I'm not seeing it at all! lol

[stevensonDNL]

Carry on my wayward son. There'll be peace when you are done. Truthfully, I'm having a difficult time understanding your English.

 

Dan

[nis720]

What are you averaging? MPG.

 

Back when I had the Z24 in my 720 it wasn't very economical when the carb wasn't tunned (not like the electro crap was tunable anyways). But at best I could get 18-19 MPG, worst was 16 MPG with me driving like a maniac.

[Rahman]

What I'm saying is that my 720 gets a lot of gas sir. and the gas gage is not straight. don't you know what could be the problem? :D

 

Rahman

[Braden]

Hi guys! I have 720's 1985 and the car gets too much gas!! something really weird!! even the gauge of the gas goes down when you push the gas.. and goes slowly up when you take the highway!! is that something normal? if not, how can I fix it? and how much does it cost?

 

thank you guys!

 

wow!!! i didnt know that the auto maker "720's" made a "1985" model "car"

[HRH]

Top Rahman, are you saying when you hit the gas, your gas guage needles goes down significantly as well? If so, I would suspect your sending unit in the tank is faulty and or is misadjusted. Hope that helps.

[Braden]

all jokes aside try a new sending unit, its either that or you gauge

[datzenmike]

When I was younger my best friend got his boss's new '66 Oldsmobile with a 425 V8 to make a quick delivery in the next town so he came over a got me. What we noticed was that on long hard acceleration the gas gauge would go down. We were concerned that we would run out of gas, but when we stopped or ran a steady speed it went back up. What was the cause? The big V8 would accelerate HARD! (we were used to my slant six and his MG, lol) The gas would slosh to the back of the tank when accelerating and the sender float would drop and given enough time the gauge would begin to drop.

Edited November 14, 2009 by datzenmike

[Rahman]

let check out the both things that you gave me guys, and I will let you know later on!

 

thank you so much guys! :)

 

Rahman

[stevensonDNL]

Yeah, Datzenmike, I think that might be what Top Rahmen is trying to say, but I think he thinks there's a connection between his perceived poor gas mileage and the strange gas gauge behavior. My 65 Catalina's gas gauge does the same thing as the 66 Olds you described when I get on it.

 

Dan

[datzenmike]

Man we had fun that evening! The car was heavy and the motor would smoke the tires and wait for it to catch up. It would downshift at 30 and squeal like a pig. Let's see, '66 I would have had my 90 day learner's permit. :lol:

[Guest 510kamikazifreak]

66,

Was a good year Mike :D