Fuel Reserve Light

It seems like my reserve light is not working. How do I test and fix this?

Any help please

nine to it has never worked and i dont wanna test when it comes on incase i get stuck on the road

Anyone???

wait till you think its empty and then keep driving , if you here splatter splatter ....... choke and it dies you know it doesnt work, if it comes on and the above doesent happen, the light comes on its working . tadaaaaa who needs an autoelectrician heheheheheeheh

godzilla wrote:

wait till you think its empty and then keep driving , if you here splatter splatter ....... choke and it dies you know it doesnt work, if it comes on and the above doesent happen, the light comes on its working . tadaaaaa who needs an autoelectrician heheheheheeheh

Haha - was waiting for an answer like that!

Yip, remove all your petrol from tank, and see if it is burning :!: :!:
(Put a wire directly on fuelpump from a battery)

On an s14, i removed all the petrol and it is burning very dimly, that means youre already standing ones its on 😀 😀

Okay - But if it stil not working!? How do i fix it?
Has anyone done this before?

sigh...

mine was working then after the new fuel pump it stopped

sigh...

cursed_s13 wrote:

Okay - But if it stil not working!? How do i fix it?
Has anyone done this before?

It depends on what the problem is. That is where fault finding skills come in. Eliminate the easy to check possibilities first and once you have eliminated everything you have found the problem.

Easiest is probably to check that the bulb is working. Hardest is probably to check the sender unit is working properly.

Pull stuff apart, learn how it works, fix it if need be, and put it back together again. Its only bits of metal and plastic.

rat wrote:

mine was working then after the new fuel pump it stopped

sigh...

Exactly the same happened with mine, stoped working after I fitted the new feul pump. I think running the sx really emty on the tank, will then tell us something.
Chem 8)

Mine did the same, but decided to just keep going, this morning the light came on, 401 km's in daily traffic....

I must say, I am empressed that the sx with a wolf 3d un tuned is running 400km's per tank in traffic.... 😀

I was certain my fuel light wasn't working. only after a year of owning the car did i ever get the fuel tank low enough for it to come on. Instantly got 100km extra out of a tank LMAO.

Ha ha, mine dies out about 5km after the feul light comes on, o and of course it chokes just before it comes on if I put her into boost.

Forgot to tell my boet that though when I left my car there for him to carry on with and he got stuck about 10km from home. lol

Needless to say, my boet swore at me from a dizzy hight when I replied "O yes, forgot to tell you" 😂

I am though planning on putting a new feul level indicator system in though to try sort this out, either that or try fixing the current one...

POWDER wrote:

Ha ha, mine dies out about 5km after the feul light comes on, o and of course it chokes just before it comes on if I put her into boost.

Forgot to tell my boet that though when I left my car there for him to carry on with and he got stuck about 10km from home. lol

Needless to say, my boet swore at me from a dizzy hight when I replied "O yes, forgot to tell you" 😂

I am though planning on putting a new feul level indicator system in though to try sort this out, either that or try fixing the current one...

sounds like you pump is sitting to high

I thaught the same, shifted it down, about 1/2 a cm, niks....the same....

rat wrote:

sounds like you pump is sitting to high

Dunno so much, new 4 bar pump and also sits a little lower than the previous. My boet was also thinking that is what it could be, but didn't help. Did notice the tank full of gunk when replacing it though, but didn't bother to clean it out, still planing on stripping it again for the new level check thingy anyway so will clean it out then and see.

Back to Poizens question though, This might be a stupid idea, but doesn't a tanks level check thing work like a toilet flush lever? With a float? and if so, couldn't bending the float lever slightly up make the light come on sooner?

If anyone can confirm this, and that it would work, them I'm definatly gonna do it, dun wan a get stuck AGAIN.....

tried that aswell, sounds kinda logical but it did not work, just managed to screw around my fuel guage even more.....

Daniel wrote:

I was certain my fuel light wasn't working. only after a year of owning the car did i ever get the fuel tank low enough for it to come on. Instantly got 100km extra out of a tank LMAO.

Maby i should try that. Coz i always fil it up just as the needle touches the red

I have just had to replace my cars fuel pump and while doing so I investigated the cause of the reserve light not operating correctly and I think I have the answer for you all....

I have noticed that there is a small black wire at the lid to the tank where you go through to get the fuel pump installed....this was not connected on my car and I have corrected this now.

when I heard that some of you had the light working the first thing that came to mind was that wire, just check it out...might be your problem...thats all:)

I hope you all come rite like I did, if not PM me.....I have the official Nissan japan printed book on the SX.....just shout!!!!