[zook89]

i cant get my temp guage to read right i have put 3 temp senders in and still got not much reading as in like 5mm off the c its a virtara engine and sierra dash maybe the resistance in the sierra loom any ideas cheers nick

[royce]

are you using a sierra sender?

are you sure its getting hot enough?

do you have a decent earth from body to engine?

does your fuel gauge read right?

does the gauge read hot if you short the wire to the manifold?

[zook89]

petrol guage dont work really well. Moves around a bit. Nah been using the virtara senders. I will try the short thing and see wat happens

[joeblow]

does it have a thermostat installed?

[royce]

I would say your body to battery earth is shot, thats makes the gauges read funny

and yeah vitara senders read low in a sierra, get a sierra sender or better yet a quality aftermarket gauge

[zook89]

i think so haven't checked it ok.

[steve]

i think i have this issue too, i'll get a new thingy dooby.

[Pubic]

dont forget the whatcha mahoosit too steve... thats the part that runs from the metal thingy

[steve]

yeah, i thought that might be a problem too because my reverse lights don't work.

[zook89]

hey royce / joe i shorted the temp cable to the motor and it went right up to hot so that means that it has to be the wrong sender for that gauge right?

[royce]

it means the gauge and regulator are probably close enough to working right

[zook89]

hmmm that seems to be running cold oh well we will see