Definitive Temp Gauge Fix!
#64
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keep in mind that the temp gauge sender could also be a problem for some with this issue and it's the sensor with the spade connector on the lower intake between cylinder 2 and 3 smack dab in the middle of the lower intake right up next to the valve cover. If you put a lead on the wire end and ground it to the chassis or block the temp gauge in the truck should turn all the way to hot if the gauge in the truck works. that tells you the sender unit is bad not the gauge. I had that issue where mine, it was jumping around and reading at only about 1/4 low temp most of the time, I tested it and the result pointed at the sender not the gauge then I got a replacement sender at the junkyard and all is well. Actually for anyone planning to tear in to their cluster it's was easier to test that the gauge is good or bad from the wire to the sender unit on the intake than it is to bust open the dash to find out that's not it . good writeup on fixing the cluster though I'll bookmark this incase my gauge end ever breaks on me.
cheers.
cheers.
Last edited by outdoorjunky; 08-25-2018 at 06:32 PM.
#65
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Thanks
Excellent write up and pictures. Kudos. Can you tell me any links to removing cluster. Everytime I start I get stuck trying to find out how to get to the Speedo cable
Thanks
Jim
Excellent write up and pictures. Kudos. Can you tell me any links to removing cluster. Everytime I start I get stuck trying to find out how to get to the Speedo cable
Thanks
Jim
#66
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Hello, old threat but hopefully someone sees this. Great info on this repair, took my cluster apart, found the 3 nuts for the temp guage not as tight as id like, no wires broken, but i did notice when i put my screw driver on one side of the winding, my guage will go up to over half way, does not do that on any other side of the winding. Is that telling me thats where my problem is?
#71
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sorry for the late reply, but I don't remember which screw driver I was using, the screw driver itself was not magnetized, but I may have been using my snapon mini screw driver that has a magnet at the end of the handle
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