yea i checked the sending unit, and it's giving me difference Ohm measurements (resistance) at different positiong (full, mid, empty). so i know the sender is fine. i pulled out the carpet and everything so i can see the wires starting from the fuel sending unit all the way up to the front of the car, and i can't see any obvious short or anything like that.

so here's what I am thinking to do, because I am getting really pissed off at this. I am wondering how hard would it be to make my own fuel gauge. I want to know if anyone has instructions on how to hook some sort of gauge up to the sending unit so that it would read the fuel level. Thanks so much for the inputs so far. Keep them comming!!!