DeTomaso Mailing List: June 98, Message #306

Would an easy check be to run a new temporary wire to the guage(just run
it from the engine through the door to the guage) and if the guage reads
the same with both wires, you have no resistor in the line?


Don Franck
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	JDeRyke@aol.com [SMTP:JDeRyke@aol.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 09, 1998 8:20 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re:  Water Temp Gauge
> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/8/98 3:37:25 PM, thedrol@email.msn.com wrote:
> snip...
> <>
> 
> The resistor on the back of the em. flasher is not the right one. On
> our Sept
> '72 car, it was in the wire bundle next to the distributor, under some
> electrical tape. I've heard others say it was near the gauge under the
> console
> on theirs. Trace the sender wire from the tank, untaping as req'd
> until you
> either run out of wire (therefore no resistor) or you locate it- a 5
> watt, 1/2
> ohm resistor.  J DeRyke