Sending Unit fail

[olddirtyrake]

I was driving my family to go get ice cream (2 small children and my wife)when my path died in the tunnels of all places. I had been having a problem with it dying intermittently but always started back up. It usually would happen in wet weather so I replaced cap and wires. So I had to flag down someone with a cell phone and run across and call my father. Luckily I could see the exit so I got a tow out of the tunnel to a 30 mph zone. Determined there wasn't any gas getting to the engine. I removed the service panel above the gas tank and discovered one of the 4 insulated electrodes on the sending unit had corroded and the wire wasn't attached. I wrapped a vice grip in a sock to avoid letting the wire ground out and vice gripped the wire to the electrode and wallah started right up.

I just cant believe that the thing was running by the wire barely touching for weeks as it had been dying intermittently for about that long. Then I get home and the Nissan Altima had a flat tire.

I guess when it rains it pours, damn this cold weather/salt belt. Bless the folks at Nissan for making a service panel to the gas tank

[WyKi]

Damn, what a bad trip. Glad you found out where the problem was. Hope you get it up and running soon enough.