Temp Gauge Question
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Safety Car
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From: Algonac Michigan
Temp Gauge Question
In getting ready to start my car with the body off,I want to connect the temp gauge from my instrument cluster. The problem is that I see 3 terminals on the gauge. The center one goes to pos batt,the lead from the sending unit in the driver side head goes to one of the other of the 2 remaining and I don't know where the 3rd one goes. Anyone have an answer??? I ran the car to break in the cam and all went well but the temp gauge never moved. It stayed at at around 100 and never moved.
Last edited by sly vette; Jul 20, 2006 at 07:57 PM.
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Most gauges with more than 2 terminals have a white ceramic looking resistor that connects the two terminals that are directly opposite to each other. Example - the resistor would bridge the terminals at 6:00 and 12:00. The wires would connect to the one isolated terminal, and then the other wire goes to the bridged terminal.
Did any of that make sense???
Did any of that make sense???
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Safety Car
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Algonac Michigan
O.K hears what I found...
The center connector takes 12v. The one side conn. goes to the temp sending unit. The other conn. goes to one of the terminals on the fuel gauge then the other term on the fuel gauge goes to 12v. These cars be CRAZY!!!
The center connector takes 12v. The one side conn. goes to the temp sending unit. The other conn. goes to one of the terminals on the fuel gauge then the other term on the fuel gauge goes to 12v. These cars be CRAZY!!!
