At 11:20 AM 9/29/2008, khgo50 wrote:
>I'm hoping someone could explain why the temp gauge light continues to flash
>(as it should when you first crank the engine, but then goes away), inspite
>of the needle maximizing upto the middle after even an extended drive. I

You didn't say what year.  Likely reason is that a capacitor inside
the gauge has gone bad; it's replaceable with some fairly delicate
soldering and drilling out the rivets on the gauge face.  Could be
the coolant-level control unit, in relay panel on new-type panels, up
under left side of dash with old-type panels -- hard but not
impossible to reach with dash in.  Unit has 43 or 42 painted on it,
removing it will check.

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