At 06:23 PM 11/30/2010, mark drillock wrote: >>I will add that with the old engine in, the gauge hardly even >>budged off the cold line, but the red light did come in when >>overheated (twice when hoses blew). Which leads me to believe that >>it is the gauge that is bad. I'm going to guess that it was the low coolant rather than overheat that actually triggered the light on those occasions. The low reading -- dunno. Pegging the gauge sounds like either the wrong sender or a shorted sender. If you actually short the sender wire to ground, you'll smell hot stuff coming from the gauge within a few seconds if the gauge is out on the bench. Yrs, David |
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