(Temperature Sender Wire? PLEASE HELP ME!!!!)

[treed2@u.washington.edu (T. Reed)]

Just want to clarify this -

Oil temp gauge sender is on the back of the head (same face as the
exhaust manifold, but on the far driver side). It has a funky slide-on
crimp connector attachment. I don't even know how to describe it because
its very weird. If you disconnect it there is only a little "nub" on the
sender, it looks like something broke off, but its supposed to be that
way.

Coolant temperature sensor for the ECU is a molded plastic snap-on 2-wire
connector in the vicinity of the coolant flange on the driver side of the
head. Don't confuse with the thermo-time switch next to it with the same
type of connector. This is the one that is crucial for your engine to run
right.

Coolant temperature sensor for the gauge is a smaller sender, higher up on
the head. There are two of them, and you can use either. The connector is
a male blade, and a white plastic female blade connector slides on to it.
This sender is used ONLY for the gauge in the instrument cluster.

HTH

-Toby

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Ryan H wrote:

> Which temperature sender in the head?  Do you mean the oil temp, or the coolant temp?  Oil temp is a green with black single wire that has a female spade connector on it.  Connects to the back of the head, a little thing that sticks out and kinda looks like a big pinhead.
> Coolant temperature is a WHITE harness connector on the side of the head by the distributor, kinda towards the front of the car.  If this was disconnected, though, the car should run like crap, as 16Vs are very dependent on this for running right.  You can't just run it to the cluster, as it splices into the knock system wiring.
>
> Quote: >There are a couple of wires with plastic terminals that are not hooked to anything about a foot away from it toward the driver side of the car could one of them be it???
> Oh yeah, those little plastic terminals you describe are just test terminals, they're not supposed to be hooked up.
> A foot away from what?  The coolant reservoir?  The wires hooked up to the reservoir are for the low coolant warning, they don't read temperature.
> Hope that helps!
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> > From: "J. Jones" <coolj30@hotmail.com>
> > Date: 2003/03/15 Sat PM 10:20:07 EST
> > To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org,  coolj30@hotmail.com
> > Subject: (Temperature Sender Wire? PLEASE HELP ME!!!!)
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