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Death of an Ether-Gauge. 120-130

posted by  RepairmanJackal on  Fri Jun 20 10:03 CST 2008
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Odd thing. After several weeks of my temperature gauge reading very hot (but not acting hot) I took the car to work this morning and noticed (as I neared my destination) that the temp was dead flat. No reading at all.

No idea why it gave up the ghost this morning, but it is definitely dead.

Is that normal? I've never seen one just fail suddenly. IMHO, it usually requires some trauma to the capillary tube.

I've got a spare, but I'm still trying to find a voltage stabilizer so that I can use my 740 gauge setup.

I'm only concerned if this sudden failure means something else is going wrong - say if the car really *has* been running extremely hot.

Any thoughts?






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