If you don' having any wiring issues I would think you should look into the gauge.
The gauge has a memory. It is supposed to stay in its last position when the key is turned off. There would be no more power going to the gauge once they key is turned off so it can no longer read resistance to ground from the sender.
Thank you sir, much appreciated. It may very well be a wiring issue; once every 2-4 months the truck suddenly begins to "jump", all the gauges begin to swing back and forth. If I'm driving, I can keep it going by putting it in nuetral and gunning the engine, but if I'm stopped, it will die on me. The previous owner and myself have had it to 2 different chevy garages and they have no clue what is causing it. Of course, if they had it WHILE it was doing it they may have a much better idea. It may not even be related, but then again it may be. Thanks again Mike, I'm trying to get another 6-8 months out of this truck if possible. Going thru a difficult time money wise, (as are a lot of folks), my soon to be ex-wife RUINED us financially and I've yet to recover, so I'm trying to get this truck to last until spring. Thanks again sir.
If it has an alarm installed, you may look into that. Many times when a vehicle has an intermitient stall condition and it has an alarm I have found that to be the fault.
I had a customer with a Kia. She said it would just die as she was driving and would not start for a while. When I had the car I could not duplicate it. When she returned for like the third time it died I happened to notice the sensor under the dash that you hold the key fob to until it beeps and you start it (there was nothing on the key chain to tell me it had an alarm). I asked her if there was an alarm. She said yes but lost the key fob so she does not use it. I took the alarm out and hook everything back up as it should be and she never returned for that issue again.
And that is only one of many cases of an alarm being an issue.
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