I guess this will be my next item to check
if the temperature sending unit don't stop the problem.
Rich W.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave
[mailto:Wilkerbeast01@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:05 PM
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: temperature
gauge showing over heating
I
had a Ford truck do this very same thing once. It had 2 gauges, fuel and temp.
BOTH pegged out at the same time. There is a small transformer behind the
instrument cluster someplace that knocks battery voltage down to operate the
gauges. Mine happened to short out, sending full voltage to them.
David C. Wilker Jr. USAF (RET)
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
- Harold S. Hulbert
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May
02, 2005 10:23 AM
Subject: IML:
temperature gauge showing over heating
Hello List,
I have a problem with my '66
Crown. I was driving one night coming back from a car show when all of a sudden
my temperature gauge went all the way over to right which showed me it was over
heating. I quickly stop the car checking the belt to see if it was broken.
Everything under the hood looked normal so I waited for about a half hour and
starting to drive the car home when it did it again. After getting home I
decided it probably was the thermostat which jammed such, and changed that
first which as many of you know is no picnic if you have AC. After completing
the job the problem was still there. So I decided to change the water pump
since it was original with over 115,000 miles on it. I took the water pump off,
and found nothing wrong with it. As a matter of fact it looked like brand new
inside. I pulled the radiator out and used a hose to put water in the top of
the radiator inlet to see if it would flow out of the bottom freely, and it
did. I'm wondering if it's the temperature sending unit. I ordered one today
from NAPA, and will have it by Wednesday. If the problem is still there then
I'm out of ideas. Does anybody have any thoughts???
Rich W
'66 Crown
'73 LeBaron
'75 LeBaron
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