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Temperature guage goes crazy.
« on: 12 July 2010, 15:49:08 »
Previously posted about my erratic temp guage. Whilst driving, goes up and down from 0 to normal temp, then 0 again, but sometimes just stays on 0.
Popular opinion was a loose temp guage connection on sensor, and have now taken off plenum to find nice tight connection (checked via meter).
Do I change the sensor, or can something else be wrong?
when idling, sometimes it moves to normal, then drops slowly to 0. P*ssed off now, had to reconnect everything to use the car, so will have to remove it all again to change sensor if needed. GRRRRRR!!!!


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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #1 on: 12 July 2010, 16:05:58 »
Press firmly/sharply on tacho to ensure dash is fully seated...
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #2 on: 12 July 2010, 16:20:32 »
????
How does that help? will of course do it to eliminate. Curious now.

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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #3 on: 12 July 2010, 16:25:07 »
seen jumpy temp gauge needles caused by poor connection on back of panel, invariably when panel has been out and not correctly seated on refit
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #4 on: 12 July 2010, 16:25:23 »
connector is broadly behiond tacho
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #5 on: 12 July 2010, 16:27:36 »
AHA!!!  will do it as soon as I finish at 5pm.

(light bulb comes on in head......changed dash lights some time ago...)
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #6 on: 12 July 2010, 16:28:02 »
Somewhere on the site is a picture of the rear of the instrument panel.. it shows the way the electrical contacts are just a "touch fit" into a V shaped receptacle.

What is being suggested is a firm press to ensure that the "fingers" are making good contact on the "fixed" receptacle.... if that makes sense...

Trouble is . I can't find the pictures of the rear of the panel !!!  It explains it far better .. picture says a thousand words ....

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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #7 on: 12 July 2010, 16:29:34 »
Yeah....but it all makes sense now.......!
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #8 on: 12 July 2010, 16:38:11 »
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Somewhere on the site is a picture of the rear of the instrument panel.. it shows the way the electrical contacts are just a "touch fit" into a V shaped receptacle.

What is being suggested is a firm press to ensure that the "fingers" are making good contact on the "fixed" receptacle.... if that makes sense...

Trouble is . I can't find the pictures of the rear of the panel !!!  It explains it far better .. picture says a thousand words ....

:(
Here you go Nige. Offered it to the forum but not taken up :-?

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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #9 on: 12 July 2010, 16:44:13 »
Cheers Rob!!!
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #10 on: 12 July 2010, 18:42:27 »
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Somewhere on the site is a picture of the rear of the instrument panel.. it shows the way the electrical contacts are just a "touch fit" into a V shaped receptacle.

What is being suggested is a firm press to ensure that the "fingers" are making good contact on the "fixed" receptacle.... if that makes sense...

Trouble is . I can't find the pictures of the rear of the panel !!!  It explains it far better .. picture says a thousand words ....

:(
Here you go Nige. Offered it to the forum but not taken up :-?



handy pic, wanna make a post of it in the test zone and Ill mnove it over. I thought we had it already, but cant see it  :y
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #11 on: 12 July 2010, 19:37:23 »
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Somewhere on the site is a picture of the rear of the instrument panel.. it shows the way the electrical contacts are just a "touch fit" into a V shaped receptacle.

What is being suggested is a firm press to ensure that the "fingers" are making good contact on the "fixed" receptacle.... if that makes sense...

Trouble is . I can't find the pictures of the rear of the panel !!!  It explains it far better .. picture says a thousand words ....

:(
Here you go Nige. Offered it to the forum but not taken up :-?



handy pic, wanna make a post of it in the test zone and Ill mnove it over. I thought we had it already, but cant see it  :y
Done James :y
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #12 on: 12 July 2010, 19:38:18 »
cheers, ill plonk it somewhere when I get a few  :y
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #13 on: 12 July 2010, 22:40:49 »
Mike, if you fancy it, I obviously have a set of dash clocks going.

If yours is the same as my newer one, the MID will have to be changed, oh, and this one reads 158,000 :(

Might be worth chucking it in as a test to see if you have a faulty panel though??????
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Re: Temperature guage goes crazy.
« Reply #14 on: 13 July 2010, 09:35:45 »
Done ALL the above, still does the same. (thanks anyway, fellers!)  now gonna change the damn sensor and put a new connector on the wire. Can't be much left to check, can it??
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