Ken,
It comes from a few years' experience as a technical writer for Texas
Instruments!  :)

Joe C.

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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:40 PM
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Subject: Re: Water temp gauge - reads hot

Thanks and a tip of the hat to Joe Curry for this excellent piece of  
advice:

> First off, if the gauge reads top of the scale with the key on and the
> engine cold, disconnect the wire from the sender and see if it goes  
> down
> to the bottom of the scale.  If it does not, you have a short in the
> sender wire grounding that leg of the circuit.  That should be easy to
> fix.

Every time someone contributes such a clear and simple diagnostic  
procedure,
I wonder why they aren't included in any of the manuals I own.

Then I remember - that's why the Internet was created.

Thanks as well to the other fellows who responded.

Looking forward to fall drives . . . .

Ken Strayhorn
'72 Spit IV
Hillsborough NC

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