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Overheating/temp gauge saga continues 200 1984

posted by  xander450 on  Wed Jul 20 02:26 CST 2005
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Guys,

To those who posted to this thread last time, thanks so much, you were a great help. However, I seemed to have made the problem worse.

Here's where we got:

My gauge seems to be lying to me - not any real suprise since so many of the wires in my car have no insulation at all, so a short was a very likely bet.

SO, on Brickboard advice, I ran a wire from the sensor in the head below intake #2 to the spot where the yellow wire ran in on the right side of the grey wire block on the top left side of the firewall. I believe that to have been the right connection - when I unplugged it to test, my gauge jumped a few times from 9'oclock to the red zone and then dropped to full cold. However, with the new wire installed (and after a continuity test to make sure it's good from sensor to the other side of the plug at the grey wire block), I get no reading on the temp gauge at all. Nothing.

Is there another place to patch in farther along in the system?

Thanks for all the advice!
Alex





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