Date:         Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:34:10 -0500
Reply-To:     Jonathan Farrugia <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
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From:         Jonathan Farrugia <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Can sender unit cause it?
Comments: To: jbange <hfinn@INGRATES.NET>
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, jbange wrote:

> At 10:55 AM 1/10/2005, you wrote:
> >check the resistance of the coolant sender with a multimeter and compare
> >your values to the ones in the manual.  additionally check the resistance
> >between the case near the sender and ground on a chassis ground point.
> >resistance should be very low here, if not clean up or redo ground
> >connections to make it so.
>
> Might also want to unplug the lead from both the sensor and the gauge and
> make sure there's no short to ground on the wire between the two, no?

a short to ground will make the gauge peg itself to the high end.  thats
actually a test in the manual to make sure that the wire and the gauge are
good.  unplug the wire from the sender and ground it and the gauge should
peg itself.  the light might flash too but i'm not sure on that.

jonathan