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Old 12th August 2010, 10:08 PM
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all down to the earth on the sender.
Hmmm, the senders I have don,t have an earth, the gauges have an earth & in the instructions it says " Direct to engine ground" from a terminal on the back of the gauge, which I have done

Now you can see why I had an auto electrician wire up the major part of my cars wiring

Tho, I had success yesterday....successfully wired in the reverse light, fog light & the fuel level gauge...all working as should be ..... I can now tell how much fuel I have ....yeehaa

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Erm....no, don,t have a T -piece to the senders, each gauge is directly wired to its own sender...

This is why I don,t understand what I,ve done wrong
as i,ve followed the instructions for each gauge independant of each other

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I don't mean an electrical t-pice, I mean a oil manifold.

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Hmmm, the senders I have don,t have an earth, the gauges have an earth & in the instructions it says " Direct to engine ground" from a terminal on the back of the gauge, which I have done

Now you can see why I had an auto electrician wire up the major part of my cars wiring

Tho, I had success yesterday....successfully wired in the reverse light, fog light & the fuel level gauge...all working as should be ..... I can now tell how much fuel I have ....yeehaa

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The block is your earth, so unless your ( t-pice, oil manifold, sandwich, whatever ) is an insulator then so long as your engine is earthed then the sender will be too.

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The block is your earth, so unless your ( t-pice, oil manifold, sandwich, whatever ) is an insulator then so long as your engine is earthed then the sender will be too.

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all the sandwich plate has is an oil seal between it & the block face then the oil filter attaches to the sandwich plate with its own oil seal....

I don,t think I have the sandwich plate the wrong way around, as if I had it positioned with the oil seal on the outside then I imagine oil would/could seep from the 2 mating surfaces ? is that correct?

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the thread should make contact anyway.

Which guages are they?

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Which guages are they?

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This is the type of gauges I,ve fitted

item number on the bay 380252463408

& the sandwich plate is this 380252487013

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And you 100% have the preasure guage to the preasure sender and temp to the temp...


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And you 100% have the preasure guage to the preasure sender and temp to the temp...


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Well I thought I had now I,m thinking maybe I haven,t, will check tomorrow as the car is not at my home ( wish it was at times like this ).

Yes, the price is very good indeed, they do a full range of these gauges..
volts/oil temp/oil pressure/amps/water temp/boost etc, they look quite smart when lit up with an indigo blue colour , sandwich plate was ordered yesterday morning & was in my car before lunch time today, very good service

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temperature one should have a solid probe, preasure should have a small hole.

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