temperature sender location

[rbfisher]

Yo Trevvies,

Anyone know where the temperature sender lives in my 99 Chim? In my 350i it was next to the thermotime switch but it's moved in this tiv.

Cheers,

Richard Fisher

[shpub]

Which one of the three are you referring to?
ECU, Guage or the one that is not used?

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

[rbfisher]

Gosh, now I'm all excited. I was referring to the dash water temperature gauge but would appreciate info about all 3 for future reference.

Cheers,

Richard Fisher

[IPAddis]

On my 96 Griff 500, I have the single wire horizontal one which in inaccessible behind the dizzy, the twin wire vertical one next to the oil filler and the unused bullet connecter style one immediately next to the twin wire one.

I think the single wire one is for the gauge, the twin wire one is for the ECU and the unused one is for when one of the other ones fails (fault redundancy at TVR?).

My gauge one appears to be unwell but considering it's location, I've no idea how much it would cost to get it fixed

Ian A.

>> Edited by IPAddis on Tuesday 5th March 13:11

[rbfisher]

Hmmmm interesting. I'm now tempted to try placing the not very sensibly placed behind the distributor sender wire onto the easily got to dummy on top of the engine. I suspect that that is just a blank and I'll end up having to take the distributor off to replace the faulty gauge sender unit.

Cheers,

Richard Fisher

[IPAddis]

quote:
Hmmmm interesting. I'm now tempted to try placing the not very sensibly placed behind the distributor sender wire onto the easily got to dummy on top of the engine. I suspect that that is just a blank and I'll end up having to take the distributor off to replace the faulty gauge sender unit.

You can try! I could only just get my hand to the one behind the dizzy and needed extra assistance from a screwdriver and a torch to remove the spade terminal. The "spare" sender probably has a different resistance so it will probably give odd results.

[David Beer]

As i have said before, i use the spare temp sender as mine behind the dizzy went high.. With a 150 ohm resistor in line the "spare" works great.
David