got car back today after whoopsie with oil etc blah blah blah...£140.00 and all sorted, oil, filter, etc and check on conzult, all ok now - phew!!

 

Problem is, coming back from garage, happened to glance at aftermarket temp gauge, and it said 230f. now, im no mechanic, but im thinking thats gonna cook the lump. Stock gauge in normal place. just under half way, seemingly all ok. So is the gauge buggered, OR is the car running at 230f, no hissing, smoke etc and after she cooled down checked coolant etc and all o.k, any ideas folks, its an autometer gauge (electrical) and has veen fed from the temp sensor on rad(spliced wires)

 

vicky x x

Is the engine ground wire for the gauge connected?

hi jezz, yep, its grounded all o.k, im crapping myself because it has behaved logically, it has gone up in temp very slowly and steadily, and just sat at the top???

 

stock gauge took 5 mions to go to halfway when autometer gauge said 230f??

 

vicky x x

Ah, so you used the existing temp sensor?

 

if so that could well be your problem as it probably has a different resistance curve to the proper autometer one.

Originally posted by silverzed

got car back today after whoopsie with oil etc blah blah blah...£140.00 and all sorted, oil, filter, etc and check on conzult, all ok now - phew!!

 

Problem is, coming back from garage, happened to glance at aftermarket temp gauge, and it said 230f. now, im no mechanic, but im thinking thats gonna cook the lump. Stock gauge in normal place. just under half way, seemingly all ok. So is the gauge buggered, OR is the car running at 230f, no hissing, smoke etc and after she cooled down checked coolant etc and all o.k, any ideas folks, its an autometer gauge (electrical) and has veen fed from the temp sensor on rad(spliced wires)

 

vicky x x

110 degrees or 230 F is almost certainly cooking it bigtime, 100 degrees is around the limit before you need to shut down. Just a reference.

so is there an easy way of connecting it, dont fancy using the sender that came with the gauge, drilling rad etc??

you need to do something like cut the top rad hose and put a stainless or ally joiner in it which has a 1/8bsp (I tihnk) thread in it to screw the sender in to.

 

I think demon tweeks sell them.

 

How have others fitted them?

 

As Waz says you don't wanna be going over 80-85deg C /176-183 deg F (running temp) if you can help it.

so surely its the gauge malfuntioning, as the engine seems all o.k, sounds stupid but the stock gauge is as per normal, so is there anyway of telling if the engine is damaged, apart from the normal, poss a sniffer test??

 

i think its just the gauge, car is fine, am i just paranoid??

 

vicky x x

just a thought, but if you got it back on the conzult, you'd be able to tell the exact temp in comparison to both the stock and aftermarket gauges.

 

Vijay

i know, but the conzult is 35 miles away from me, and cant go back until next week. im sure the gauge is not reading right, SURELY the engine would be bolloxed by now?? shes pulling right, boosting o.k, no smoke, no steam etc etc:confused: :confused: :confused:

 

vicky x x

My gauge went up to 90ºC before the fan came one and then it lowered quite quickly, even though the stock gauge didnt move.

 

Where has the temp sensor been put? Is there water and coolent in the car?

 

Stuart

its an autometer gauge (electrical) and has veen fed from the temp sensor on rad(spliced wires)

 

as Jezz said, that could well be the problem.

 

Vijay

your engine is fine, it's the gauge not reading right becuase (probably) you are using hte wrong sender.

 

if the water was 110 dgrees you would know about it.

thanks folks, i will check out the demon tweeks site for the gadgets to do it properly. i will try and disconnect the stock wire in the sender and see if that makes a difference, if not, i'll get the chain saw out and cut the pipe!!

 

thanks folks

 

vicky x x

Simple - its the WRONG SENDER. You cannot just plumb a guage into a sender that wasn't supplied for the job. There's all kinds of different senders out there which will give a different reading at different temperatures. Your autometer guage is calibrated for your autometer sender - NOT the nissan one ;)

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

thanks andyduff - makes complete sense. have ordered some wierd jobbie to put between hose and rad from local motor factors, i'll let you know.

 

cheers all

 

vicky x x

Yeah go on, you you take all the credit duff, go on lap it up. :mad::p:D:D

OOPPS!! i've started yet another row - ill get me coat

 

vicky x x

Well how did you get on with it.

 

You have gone very quiet of late, anything wrong?

 

:(