Hey folks,
After scratching our hands to bits installing an oil temp gauge sensor today for both myself and Pulsebass on here, both of us now have strange, clearly incorrect readings.
The gauges are Proshift, and came with a 1/8npt sender, so I purchased a 1/8 to m10x1converter.
Basically, that part all fits perfectly, there are 2 wires coming from the sender, red and black, with a bullet connector on each.
I've wired them up, but somewhere somethings clearly wrong, whether its the grounding or not im not sure, but mine is reading 110 degrees C on a stone cold engine, my friends was 70 on a stone cold engine.
Would the fact I have scotch-locked the connectors in the engine bay instead of bullet connectors have anything to do with it?
We never had any bullet connectors for the extending wire, so I just scotch-locked them onto the sender wire.
The sender wire was a cotton type wire, rather than the normal electrical wire sort.
I haven't cut the bullet ends off the sender wire so can always use them in case.
Any ideas?
PS> The electrical lighting side of things all work perfectly, which tends to point it to be one of the sender wires, be it not grounded, or just not connected properly...?
After scratching our hands to bits installing an oil temp gauge sensor today for both myself and Pulsebass on here, both of us now have strange, clearly incorrect readings.
The gauges are Proshift, and came with a 1/8npt sender, so I purchased a 1/8 to m10x1converter.
Basically, that part all fits perfectly, there are 2 wires coming from the sender, red and black, with a bullet connector on each.
I've wired them up, but somewhere somethings clearly wrong, whether its the grounding or not im not sure, but mine is reading 110 degrees C on a stone cold engine, my friends was 70 on a stone cold engine.
Would the fact I have scotch-locked the connectors in the engine bay instead of bullet connectors have anything to do with it?
We never had any bullet connectors for the extending wire, so I just scotch-locked them onto the sender wire.
The sender wire was a cotton type wire, rather than the normal electrical wire sort.
I haven't cut the bullet ends off the sender wire so can always use them in case.
Any ideas?
PS> The electrical lighting side of things all work perfectly, which tends to point it to be one of the sender wires, be it not grounded, or just not connected properly...?
