I have a 2000 Chevy pickup with 150,000 miles and automatic transmission . The fuel gauge will go to empty and then back to correct level intermittently along with the battery and alarm light and the parking lights . It does not seem to do this when truck is first started . Also I gave someone a jump start and I do not know if this began afterwards .
Hey Rick, my name is Rick too, that's funny. It sounds like you have a bad ground cable somewhere. You're gonna have to look up where those are for your car and scuff up the washer and body part that it connects to. Past that I would look at testing the conductivity of your coolant. If it has not been changed in a very long time it can actually become conductive for all the small bits of metal that get suspended in it.
So things are going haywire on the dash? Check if you shorted anything out. How did you jump the other car
From battery to battery . Pos . to pos . neg . to neg .
Bad grounds and crappy connections.
They need taken apart and cleaned up.
You can also run new grounds from the battery to the block, frame, body, and inside the cab to the metal rails in the dash. THIS WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF BAD GROUNDS.
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Chevrolets have problems with bad solder joints in the instrument panel cluster. There are companies that will repair yours. Probably also do an exchange of yours for a remanufactured one.
These are also something that can be soldered by a competent electronics tech that fixes consumer electronics if you know of one. GM electronics of this vintage had really lousy solder jobs on their boards.
This is something that I would take apart and solder myself. Use good electronics solder with LEAD. Don't use plumbing solder, fat stuff, acid core or any lead free garbage. USE THE REAL LEAD STUFF for electronics.
Check for bad grounds or circuit board faults
