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water temperature gauge
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:35 AM
the eco swap is in but my harness was missing the connector to the water temperature sensor on the back side of the motor. im thinking of just running a water temperature gauge in my pillar pod but i'm wondering how it connects. if it just connects to the wires for the stock sensor, i'm screwed because i dont have that. aaron was saying the sender should work with the stock connection as in i pull the stock connection out. screw in the autometer piece then screw the stock piece into it. does anyone have one or know if this is accurate?


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Re: water temperature gauge
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:29 AM
im no performance guy but i think i do remember reading something very recently that you just replace the stock piece with the autometer piece.

dont quote me, but ill try and locate wherever i seen that





Re: water temperature gauge
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:49 AM
well, not sure the difference between the 2.4 and the eco as far as water temp goes, but from what ive been reading it seems you do need the stock water temp connection, and have to make a T of sorts to connect it. this way the computer will know the temp and will kick the fan on when needed. but this is all fan related. i think you could prolly figure out a way to hook it up without the stock, but the fan wont know when to come on, so it never will. but if the gauge works then you can always hook the fan to a switch and turn it on/off when needed. at least this is what i gathered from reading around. hope it helps a little

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Re: water temperature gauge
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:55 PM
that is some help joe. i dont have the wire plugged in right now anyway since its gone so likely my fan wont be coming on at all if thats the case. i'll have to watch it when i get it running longer and may need to add a switch. but does hopefully sound like the gauge may work for the temps.


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Re: water temperature gauge
Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:25 PM
just as a side note today when i was working on getting the alt working properly i noticed that even though i dont have a connecion to the rear temp sensor the fan was still running. so the sensor for that must be somewhere else.


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