H Steven Dolan wisely said: >> Check your plan of >> action real careful before you start cutting tho, coz' you shouldn't have >> to. I often run into situations where I spend hours doing that I could >> have saved with a couple of minutes of thinking. Here is a short update: The extension wire (the 2 wires that connect the sender to the gauge) that comes with the VDO cylinder head temperature kit _is_ 15 ft. long and hence long enough (though barely), even for a bus. So no shortening or lengthening of the wire is necessary. Here is a new question: The ring which constitutes the sender is to replace the compression ring of the (#3) spark plug, per instruction. But I find this ring to be much softer than the compression ring and I'm not sure how much I should tighten the spark plug. I'm afraid of damaging the sender. It just feels different. (Normally, it is easy to screw in a spark plug almost all the way by hand and the final tightening with the wrench only requires a 1/4 turn at most. Here, however, I can keep on turning at least 1 or 2 complete turns, although the ring is not warped.) So, I'd like to know: 1) can the sender easily be damaged? 2) how much torque should I use to tighten the spark plug? 3) what's the consequence of a loose spark plug? Thanks, Sami /--------------------------------------------\ /-------/======================================)\ / /| ||============|| | | =)\ / / | ||============|| | | =)\ _\ _\___/__|O_______||============||__|_________| =)\ / \\-----|-----------|-------------------------------) ( ))==M | |Sami, dakhlia@wuecona.wustl.edu| ( )) | |Dept. Economics, Box 1208 | \ // ( ) | |Washington U. in St.Louis | | | /====|MO 63130-4899, USA_______ | |_______|_____// \\ (314) 935-7472 // \\ | (|=|===== )_____/ (O) \______________/ (O) \____)) \===/ \\ / \===/ \\ /
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