Date:         Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:03:11 -0500
Reply-To:     Greg Marshall <earthboy@HOME.COM>
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From:         Greg Marshall <earthboy@HOME.COM>
Subject:      guage questions. What should they read, and why doesn't one work?
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Hey folks,

After many long hours and much grease and dirt, I have finished
installing my new trio of guages.  The voltage guage works fine, but I'm
having some problems with the other two.  The oil pressure guage reads
around 50 psi at idle, and 60 psi while driving.  This seems high
considering that bentley says the minimum is 29 psi.  Is this pressure
normal, or have I wired somethign wrong?

Secondly, my oil temperature guage is spiking and burying the needle in
the rand hand side of the guage.  I unplugged power to it pretty quick
becasue this didn't seem healthy for it.  The guage has three
connections on the back, "G" "+" and an upside down "T".  I wired it
with G to ground, + to power, and the upside down T to the sender.  I
also tried wiring + to power, G to the sender, and the upside down T to
ground.  It didn't spike, but after driving around the block a couple of
times it still didn't move.

Any help or tips would be appreciated.  I put  ton of time into this and
I'd like to get it sorted out...

thanks a bunch folks.


greg.
82 westy.