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Old Sep 21, 2007 | 06:01 PM
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Coolant sensor help

Hey guys, after doing some poking around, I believe its the coolant sensor that is failing. My DMM reads inifity OHMs from the contact to the brass casing on your normal OHM range, it does read a continuity when set on the megaohm setting though. The problem is that there is two temp sensors, one for the computer, and another for the guage. All the sensors I've seen online are the ones for the computer. Or is the harness hookup detachable to use the single wire temp guage hookup?
 
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Old Sep 22, 2007 | 06:41 PM
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pull it out and make sure the threads are clean if it isn't making good contact it will send a shoddy reading or none at all!! alittle dielectric when you reinstall will keep it corrosion free!!
 
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Old Sep 22, 2007 | 08:30 PM
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pull it out and make sure the threads are clean if it isn't making good contact it will send a shoddy reading or none at all!! alittle dielectric when you reinstall will keep it corrosion free!!
I pulled it out and tested it with my multimeter, I had to set i to the megaohms setting, to get any reading at all from it.
 
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