Dan Heath wrote:

> How can I test the OP sender and how can I test the gauges?

 The first thing I'd be tempted to do is set up a complete system test.
Remove the gauges and hook them to a battery and ground the body of the
sender, connect the sender wire, and then throw the temp sender in boiling
water and see what it reads.  Grounding the sender wire should make it
either go full scale or to zero, and disconnecting it should make it go full
scale one way or the other.  Same deal for the pressure sender, but use your
air compressor to pressurize a fitting that the sender is screwed into.
Disconnect and/or grounding the sender should make it read full scale, one
way or the other, so that's an easy test without even removing them from the
panel.  Maybe you've already tested them that way though.  If they were VDO
gauges (or Mitchell) the directions should tell you the resistance range for
each sender.

Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
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