Date:         Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:26:43 -0700
Reply-To:     David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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From:         David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject:      Re: Temp Guage
Comments: To: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
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This wire would be close to the thermostat, at the front driver corner of
the engine bay.  Yellow with a red stripe.  On 1.9L engines it
is a single wire, 2.1L engines it is a two pin plug, the other wire is a
ground wire - ensure that it is actually ground!

David
Marshall

On Mon, August 21, 2006 12:04, Jeff Lincoln wrote:
> It is Pegged Cold right now and doesn't move at all. I wonder if
the darn
> wire is even hooked up. The PO did some strange things
after being hit in
> the rear end - so the O2 sensor isn't hooked
up right and I wonder if the
> darn temp guage is hooked up. Where
does that wire connect to the engine?
>
> On 8/21/06,
David Marshall <mailinglist@fastforward.ca> wrote:
>>
>> To the left... so it is pegged hot or pegged cold?
>>
>> If you remove the coolant wire from the engine,
the needle should be
>> pegged cold.  If you touch the wire to
ground the needle should be
>> pegged
>> hot.  A
200ohm resistor between the wire and ground should result in a
>> "warm" engine.
>>
>> I would do
that test before swapping gauges.
>>
>>
>> David Marshall
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, August 21, 2006 09:59, Jeff Lincoln
wrote:
>> > Ok folks. The temp guage in my 86' isn't
working. I know that the
>> > indicator
>> >
light works because it comes on before I start the bus - but the
>> needle
>> is
>> > always far left. So
what do I look for? Or do I just swap with the
>> guage
>> > cluster from my 85' GL?
>> >
>>
> --
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> >
Jeff
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>