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Bantonik98

07-22-2018 10:58 AM

Fuel sender

I just bought my first boat! It is a 1999 Fountain 27 Fever. I absolutely love this boat. It is remarkably perfect. Obviously as a boat it has a few projects but, one of the problems is the gas gauge is clearly wrong. I herd that the fuel senders are a common problem on these boats. I was wondering where I can find these units and if they are easy to replace or fix.

CraneHillFast

07-23-2018 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bantonik98 (Post 4639305)

yes easy job. I bought my sender off of eBay. It is located under the rear seat, under circle plate in middle.

Scarab28

07-23-2018 01:36 PM

Which one did you purchase and did it solve the issue?

Bantonik98

08-20-2018 11:17 AM

I bought mine from fountain for $157. It is an easy job but it’s a matter of putting a large wrench on it and where it is located. I recommend taking the bench seat off it makes things much easier. And run as much gas as you can out because the sender is at the back of the tank and with the bow pitched up all the gas flows to the back. With to much gas it will over flow out when you take the sender off.

Bantonik98

08-20-2018 11:20 AM

My part number was 7821 it’s located on top of the sender.

AllDodge

08-20-2018 11:27 AM

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gas gauge is clearly wrong.

Don't know what this means and could very well be the sender, but you could test to verify

Check for 12V on the purple wire going to the gauge.
Insure it has a good ground
With key ON, ground the sensor terminal (pink wire) the gauge should read full.
Disconnect the pink wire and gauge should show empty
Reconnect the pink wire

If these check out, go to the tank sender and ground the pink, gauge should peg full
If all checked out then its the sender

The sender should be 33 (full) to 240 ohms (empty)

Get a sender which is 1 inch shorter then the tank is deep. Replaced mine with a VDO tube type

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