OK I hope this does not sound confusing, wife and I just had our timing belt/water pump done in our 04 V8 SR5 4runner on monday...This is the thing, I noticed our gas needle gauge going down a little quicker that evening, maybe parnoia, so I filled it back up tuesday AM...Tank filled to 359 miles to go, now we are down to 205 miles based off that gas gauge and our odometer has 136 miles driven since the fill up, and the MPG on the dash says averaging 18.5 so i guess we are fine dispite the difference b/w the odomoter and the fuel gauge estimator..But
I swear our gas needle is flucuating, like tonight, I did a mile 10 test run, the sucker moved to almost half a tank from slightly below the quater mark line like when I left the house and when I started the car back up after driving, it went back up to just below the quarter mark line like orginally..very weird..
the car runs fine, no loss of power one bit, it idols fine which makes me think all the tooths are fine " I guess " but that gas gauge needle dropping and going back has me concerned...we just need to monoitor this and if we are losing gas, then I need to get back to the shop..I did read if a tooth is half off, it could cause gas loss??..
has anybody experianced this after a timing belt change?
I swear our gas needle is flucuating, like tonight, I did a mile 10 test run, the sucker moved to almost half a tank from slightly below the quater mark line like when I left the house and when I started the car back up after driving, it went back up to just below the quarter mark line like orginally..very weird..
the car runs fine, no loss of power one bit, it idols fine which makes me think all the tooths are fine " I guess " but that gas gauge needle dropping and going back has me concerned...we just need to monoitor this and if we are losing gas, then I need to get back to the shop..I did read if a tooth is half off, it could cause gas loss??..
has anybody experianced this after a timing belt change?
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