I thought there were two senders for the gauge -- one in the water for the actual meter, the other in the cylinder head to light the LED when a overtemperature condition occurred. The problem with putting the temperature sender in the water is of course that if you lose your water you also have lost what you are measuring. I guess that's what the blinking "low coolant" LED is for... Am I thinking of a different engine that had the two sensors? If not would there be a way to retrofit a cylinder head temperature sensor? Allan On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:44 PM, robert feller wrote: > I respect Scott's comment but i will decent on this one. > > We went the 100% crazy route when we thought my gauge was reading > high (7/8) > and sometimes red light on warm days. New sensor, stat, radiator, > wiring > check, voltage stabilizer/reguator ect. Finally got the infered gun > and > compared locations and temps to my buddies 2.1L and we took exact temp > readings but our gauges showed different data. it's hard to say > what is > "dead on" with these gauges. I did tons of research with Bentley, > VDO and VW > tech manuals trying to figure out all Ohm readings for a given > temp. Lot of > work and poor data out there to find that different resources gave > slightly > different Ohm readings for arbitrary gauge readings. I've got the > sources > for those interested. > > Combine this to a gauge that reacts wide and slow due to the > radiator being > so far forward and I've never been a huge fan of the temp gauge on > these > things for the often OVERCOOLED vanagon engine. > > |
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