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02-12-2004, 08:15 PM | #1 |
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Need to verify temp. gauge malfunction...
...before I go buy a new one. The gauge is pegged all the way to the hot side whether the green wire is attached to the sensor or not. I checked for continuity between the sensor clip and the gauge and I get a reading so the wire from sensor to gauge is ok. Any advice?
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02-12-2004, 08:30 PM | #2 |
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Is the gauge pegged when the key is off?
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02-12-2004, 09:26 PM | #3 |
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Follow that green wire into the engine compartment. You'll probably find that it is melted or chafed some place and shorting to ground.
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02-12-2004, 09:30 PM | #4 |
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Its pegged under any conditions, does not move, not even a twitch. I just bought another mech. gauge/sensor setup, will install it tomorrow. I previously went through 3 Equus brand mech. setups and they lasted about a year each time. This time I went a step up and got a Sunpro whiteface. But I'd still like to have the stock setup operational. My local supplier quoted me 50 bucks Cdn for a stock replacement gauge along with a 3 week wait. A little steep IMO.
Longhorn, the wire is good between the sensor and the gauge cluster, checked with an ohmmeter.
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02-12-2004, 10:54 PM | #5 |
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If the guage is staying pegged when the ignition is off, it is probably a bum guage.
ON the wire testing, did you connect a lead to one end of the wire, and then the other lead to the engine block? That would test for a short to ground. If you just did from one end of the wire to the other end, then it would test good but could still have a short to ground. The continuity would still flow in the wire, but it would also go through the short too. And since the guage works off of Ohms to ground, if you ground out the wire (say a melted section on the exhaust manifold) then the guage would peg out to hot. |
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