Hi

Please advise what size t piece do I need for water temp guage, is plastic OK or is it better to use metal?

Advice req.

Thanks,

Geoff.

you are better off pluming in your sender in some where else. You can buy hard pipe with your sender ready to be put in from Smithy.

 

I used the black Nissan sender to work my gauge as it gives the correct resistance to for my other dial.

 

Stuart

Is it possible to take a feed for both existing and new temperature gauges of the one feed, or will this muck up the resistance requirements??

 

 

Simon

:confused: :confused:

Take a feed from the yellow sensor and it will cause your car to run like poop.

 

I have run a feed from the black sensor and it seems to work fine. Because the sensor is powering both the dial and the dash, it makes it read slightly under. From watching the dial move with them both attached and one attached, its only reads about 2-3C lower.

 

Stuart

Quick question:

 

The reason for purchasing an aftermarket temp guage is to get a more accurate reading than the crappy stock one. Why would you then want to take a feed from the crappy stock sender unit? Surely this nullifies any benefit ... The black sensor (which feeds the dash dial) is known to be in accurate due to corrosion, ill fitment, etc. On my car I need to tighten it up every other week or so to stop it making the dash needle fluctuate as I'm accellerating.

 

Geoff, best to plumb it in at a different location using the correct fittings, etc. Smithy's solution is a very nice and clean one which doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

 

Regards,

The sensor is not the unacurate part. Its the dash dial

 

Many time I have said this and I will say it again. ;)

 

When my stock dial is horizontal my after market dial reads 65C. The aftermarket dial can go all the way over 90C and the dash dial will remain horizontal.

 

The dash dial will only tell you if your engine is over heating by which time it may be too late. Your after market dial will tell you how hot the water is, and will show it rising and falling even when getting the feed from the stock sensor.

Ok - I stand corrected ... Thanks Stuart.

 

Regards,

Didnt mean to sound sarcastic when I said

 

Many time I have said this and I will say it again.

 

I mean every time this subject comes up its is all I ever say. ;)

No worries mate! ;)

I dont know why this post came up again it was entered ages ago. In the end my temp guage was connected to the pipe to the heater matrix using a special alloy T piece adapted by PTS, Herts.

Works perfectly.

Geoff.

My fault,

 

I've just bought Oil pressure, temperature, and water temperature gauges and was perusing previous threads to find out how best to install them. This one almost answered the question for me. I just sought further advice.

 

Sorry if it woke you:D

 

Simon.

No problem mate.

Geoff.