DeTomaso Mailing List: June 98, Message #274

I ran across an interesting occurance in the last week.  My water temp gauge
always read a touch over 160.  It was always stable.  Now I believed that
this was not the actual temp, but that there was a series resistor somewhere
lowering the reading.  Through a series of mishaps, blown fan fuse and some
other simple problems I had inconsistant readings.  I eventually replaced
the sender unit and got a GOOD connection to it.  The car now runs steady
around 190, the thermostat temp.  Both fans come on, in stages, though it
was a lot disconcerting to see the temp gauge read so much higher.

Now for the question.  I'm not going to ask the obvious/much asked question
of what temp your car runs.  Cause I remember seeing this answer dozens of
times.  But where is this resistor normally mounted?  I thought I saw one
under the dash, but I was installing a stereo and wasn't too concerned with
it at the time. I had plenty of other unexplainable wires to look at instead
of a common high wattage resistor.

Paul
#9270