No fuel reading

[Sccala]

Post subject: Fuel Gauge​ Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 6:06 am​

Joined: Mon Jun 08, 2020 2:51 pm Posts: 17 Year: 2011 Make: Yamaha Model: 242 Limited

Hey guys. I have a 2011 242 limited. The past few years, The lenses on my tachometer have been getting glazed over and the LCD display has been getting sunburnt. Last year it was completely impossible to read anything on it, so in the off-season I sent them out for repair. They all have nice clear lens covers on them and the LCD screens are as good as new. I can cycle through all of my readings… Direction, latitude, longitude, water temperature, time, depth, fuel level, etc. They all are perfect except for the fuel level. Each tachometer will show “fuel level“… But it’s not showing me exactly how MUCH fuel I have. It’s been a couple years since I could read it, but I believe it used to be a horizontal bar that would get shorter and shorter as the fuel went down. i’ve just been filling up every third time I use the boat just to make sure I never run out of fuel, but I would like to know exactly how much I have in the tank… Especially since I got these gauges repaired primarily for this exact reason. And now it’s annoying because this is the only thing that I CANT see on the gauge. Any ideas on what would be causing this? I’m pretty confident that I did didn’t do anything wrong when removing them and installing them again. All you really do is just unplug the connectors and then plug them back in. Is there some kind of reset procedure or something?

 

[tdonoughue]

Fill up the tank.

On a number of models, filling the tank resets the sender. That might do it for you right there.

 

[Sccala]

Haha. That seems so simple, but we’ll see. I won’t have a chance to put gas in it until mid next week. Stay tuned

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Have you checked the fuel sender and or the wires on the tank for connectivity and or corrosion?

 

[Sccala]

Have you checked the fuel sender and or the wires on the tank for connectivity and or corrosion?

I haven’t.… I don’t even know what a fuel sender is or where it’s located or what it looks like. I do know, however… That last year, even though the gauge was very very difficult to see, I could barely still read out if I had gas or not. Only at a certain angle and in certain lighting. But it was very, very, very visible. This year… it’s completely gone. So I am guessing that has something to do with the fact that I unplugged the tachometer. Literally all I did was… With the batteries disconnected, unplugged, the wiring harness from the tachometer, unscrewed them from the mount, and sent them out to be refinished.