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Subject:Re: Coolant Temp Sensor Problem
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:35:48 -0500

At 08:21 PM 11/30/2010, Don Hanson wrote:
>   My temp gauge was behaving in a similar weird fashion.  I got a new
>sender..still weird.  there is a test protocol in Bently for the
>instrument...Ground it goes to full hot, maybe?

Ground it burns up if you leave it long.  As I said below, 35 ohms to
ground should trigger the light and bring the needle to the beginning
of the overheat zone.

d