Temp Gauge

[Tom Thorpe 10]

I fitted a new temperature sensor to my Rado and now I seem to get the water temperature light flashing at me when at a stand still. I grounded the wire from the sensor to see if this activated the warning light to give me an idea of whether its a faulty sensor and it did trigger the warning light. unfortunately though, when my temperature gauge was at the top, it suddenly dropped to the bottom and now reads 0 all the time as if somethings blown. Is there a fuse for the gauge or will I need a new set of clocks to fix it?

 

Tom

[Stonejag 10]

Water temperature light? There isn't one, if you mean the red flashing one at lower-left of the clocks below the MFA then that's the coolant level warning, which runs off a different sender (plugged into the top of the expansion tank).

 

Stone

[Tom Thorpe 10]

I grounded the coolant sensor thats on the right hand side of the engine and that triggered the warning light.

 

Tom

 

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I fixed the gauge by lifting the needle up until it clicked, the gauge works fine now. Its just reading higher than the temperature actually is.

 

Tom

[VR6Pete 0]

 

Same happened to me. If you ground for too long it will keep going until it pops out the plastic bit in the clocks. Simple fix, a very basic component though by looks of things :)