no fuel

[nova302]

Got trouble. My car got hit up backside other week and the fuel gauge stopped working. I had a look at it to see if there was a lose wire on the fuel guage sender and ended up pulling the whole sender out of the tank, lost all the petrol on garage floor. Not happy so i put the sender back in when all the fuel was out the way and put 2 gallons of petrol in tank. Still got no petrol gauge and now the car won't start the engine is a 1.4 single point injection has anybody else had a similar problem?

[david dixon]

sounds like your sender could be jammed in the tank somewhere stopping it from floating.
And you could have a air lock in the tank or pump stopping the petrol from getting through, try taking off the petrol cap and turning it over to see what happens.

[mowgli]

fuel gauge wires exit the shell under the back seat, there is a good chance that the wire has been trapped causing the fault.