Topic: Temp Guage reading / Sender failure? (Read 561 times)

harpersimon · « **on:** 18 September 2010, 15:27:29 »

Hello
Car recently started showing me its ridculously hot on the guage, when I am pretty certain its all fine. Are the senders prone to failing?
Symptoms - driving along, slow traffic maybe so guage already showing up in the top half 90/90+, then guage will move up to the red, in about 5 seconds.. with me watching it move and starting to panic.. then drop down again to the under 100 mark. its intermittent - won't do it maybe for the rest of the days driving - acts normal with temp rising in traffic and fans bringing it down, never over 100
Fans kick in fine, plenty of coolant, no loss - recently flushed, recent new header tank and cap - guessing the sender is fubar but after some opinions

PhilRich · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 September 2010, 19:26:48 »

Try 'burping' it. You may have an air lock.

harpersimon · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 September 2010, 20:43:55 »

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Try 'burping' it. You may have an air lock.

will do. Is there a special way, or just run it with the cap off, sqeeze hoses, heater on max etc?

harpersimon · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 September 2010, 09:31:19 »

Is there a 'burping procedure'?

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