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Re: Temperature Transmitter

To: "Jason K. Cullum" <jcullum@chorus.net>,
Subject: Re: Temperature Transmitter
From: "MikeC" <mikech@sprynet.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:18:02 -0600
You've got a water outlet from the 63 and the water pump housing from the
69. They changed places somewhere in-between. If you tried both, it sounds
more like wiring, power or gauge problem.
MikeC



>
>My temp gauge does not work. The wiring is all OK, which leaves one of two
>things. The Gauge or the transmitter. My car appears to have two of them?
It
>is a 1296 from a 69 MK3 placed in a 1963 Spit. On the thermostat housing
>there are two sensors threaded into it. One on the Passenger side, where
the
>wire is hooked up, the smaller of the two. And one on the Driver's side of
>the housing with no wire hooked up to it, a larger unit. Both appear to be
>temp transmitters. Why would there be two and is there a way to test one to
>see if it is bad? I hooked the wire up to both of them and no reading on
the
>gauge either way.
>
>Thanks,
>Jason
>


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