Hmmm, I wonder if it is the gauge! It sure is acting like the gauge is
getting a steady 12v instead of the stabilized average of 10v.
Could it be actually reading the right temp?
Try turning the ignition on (pull the hot lead to the coil), and see what the
gauge reads after about a minute then.
These gauges are rather reliable. It might misread by a few degrees, but not
THAT much.
It is a pain in the neck, but can you get a voltmeter on the wire at the temp
sensor? You should see it going , then dropping to zero, back and forth. An
analog meter is much better at showing this.
If it just stays at some voltage above zero (like 12v) and never drops to
zero, then the stabilizer is bad.
That is unless you have one of the new "semiconductor" stabilizers, then it
should be supplying a steady 10v when you pull the wire off the sensor and
read the voltage on the wire.
-Tony
>Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:30:37 EDT
>From: KingR44916@aol.com
>Subject: [TR] temp gauge rebuild
>
>put in a new voltage stabilizer a new thermostate a new sending unit the
>gauge still goes straight to hot in about a min of idle does anyone know how
to
>rebuild the gauge or is it just too difficuilt
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