electric tempature gauge

[dsmjunk]

I tried hooking up an aftermarket electric temp gauge with the temp wires under the hood. The small sensor gave me a reading of 140(the stock gauge is at normal temp) and the big sensor gave a reading of 300 and now my cel is on. any idea of whats wrong??/

 

[onefast2gdsm]

If you have an aftermarket gauge, there should be a sender with the gauge. You dont hook it to one of the factory ones because for one its not calibrated for it.

 

[dsmjunk]

so take out the old one and put in the new one

 

[onefast2gdsm]

What brand gauge is it. You should get a new sending unit from the manufacturer if you bought the gauge used.

 

[dsmjunk]

its a ractive and i bought it new. it has the sending unit just figured i could use the old one but guess not so i will switch it out tomorrow.

 

[onefast2gdsm]

Ok let us know the results. Good luck.

 

[dsmjunk]

Thanks for the help man.

 

[onefast2gdsm]

No problem!

 

[onefast2gdsm]

Just a piece of advice, i dont know how your thermostat housing is setup, but on mine, i wanted to keep the factory gauge working so i took out a plug in the thermostat housing and put the gauge sender there so that and the factory gauge worked.