I've been fighting with my temperature gauge ever since I installed the El-Glo cluster stuff. The first time I started the car after installation, no problems. Second time, the gauge was stuck pointing straight down (i.e. 6 o'clock position). A good thwack to the binnacle fixed it for that trip, but it was dead again on the next and no longer responded to thwacking. I figured I'd probably manhandled the wiring harness enough to create a bad connection or something. So I pulled the binnacle back out and looked at everything to make sure it was visually in good shape. No apparent problems, so I reinstalled. Gauge works! Once. On the second drive, it's again stuck at 6 o'clock. So I began to check some real things. The connections to +12, ground, and the sender were all good. Very briefly shorting the pin connected to the sender to ground had no effect at all. So I removed the whole binnacle again. This time, when I had it apart, I noticed that if I peered in from the edge, it actually looked like the needle was barely barely impacting the clear plastic cover. Aha, I thought. I shimmed out the plastic just a little with a washer and part of a business card from a local traffic ticket lawyer. There's no way the gauge can touch the window now. I reinstalled the cluster, twisting a stud off one of its mounts. I think the metal used to make most of the mounting studs in this car has approximately the same tensile strength as room temperature margarine. The gauge works! Once. Now stuck at 6 again. Obviously I played with the gauge quite a bit in getting the El-Glo panels in, but I've never heard of a gauge breaking in any fashion quite like this. Anyone got any clues? If not, at least I got to bitch. :) Thanks for the VOV info, Walt. I'll be sure to pick one up before I next rip the AC apart, which seems to be a biannual event at this point. -andrew Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=267637.4116732.5333197.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1754451/R=0/SIG=11t8a5ls2/*http://www.netflix.com/Default?mqso=6 0178323&partid=4116732> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=267637.4116732.5333197.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1754451/rand=407891503> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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