lukexr61988 Member 191 Member For: 16y 4m 23d Gender: Male Location: NSW sydney Posted 30/06/09 08:10 AM Share Posted 30/06/09 08:10 AM on the weekend me and my mate installed my drift iridium gauges, boost,oil press,oil tempt (all electric)all went well except one problem.. the oil tempt gauge will not give us a reading, we played around with it for ages making sure everything is right which it is but no luck! the only thing it will display is " LO"yesterday when I started my ute it was giving me no reading at all! then after 10/15mins of driving it came back up with "LO"power is getting to all gauges and everything els works perfect! these are brand new gauges bought on Saturday so nothing should be wrong with them!! but to me it sounds as if I have a faulty oil tempt sender??any help or ideas would be great, cheers luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo.vixen Hey guys, Tab is here... Oh i feel sick Lifetime Members 8,459 Member For: 16y 7m 17d Gender: Male Location: sunshine coast Posted 30/06/09 08:20 AM Share Posted 30/06/09 08:20 AM are they brand new? talk to the person you bought it off, they might of heard of this problem before.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukexr61988 Member 191 Member For: 16y 4m 23d Gender: Male Location: NSW sydney Posted 30/06/09 08:25 AM Author Share Posted 30/06/09 08:25 AM yeh bought them from autobarn... not even going to bother asking that hopeless bunch anything lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHANTMXR6 It's not a MKI! Member 1,742 Member For: 16y 6m 21d Gender: Male Location: Earth Posted 01/07/09 09:47 AM Share Posted 01/07/09 09:47 AM Can't be that hopeless, you bought them from there. Have you checked the gauge itself?If you earth out the signal wire to the gauge it should go to the highest reading.If it's doing that the gauge will be ok. It will be either the sender or your wiring.Either try another sender or ask for your money back and buy some decent gauges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETM Member 1,194 Member For: 17y 9m 27d Gender: Male Location: syd south Posted 01/07/09 09:52 AM Share Posted 01/07/09 09:52 AM Remove the sender and pour boiling water over it. I bet it works fine and your oil temp just isnt hot enough to register on the gauge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xr6greg Member 73 Member For: 16y 6m 19d Posted 02/07/09 07:06 AM Share Posted 02/07/09 07:06 AM Takes a fair while for oil to heat up but 15 minutes should be giving you a reading. As suggested pull the temp sensor out and into the boiling water which eliminates that as being the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukexr61988 Member 191 Member For: 16y 4m 23d Gender: Male Location: NSW sydney Posted 03/07/09 06:57 AM Author Share Posted 03/07/09 06:57 AM even after driving the car for over 30mins it still shows no reading, the gauge reads from as low as 40 im sure after 30mins driving the oil has hit this temp..also on the intructions it says: YELLOW/TEMP SENSOR CONNECT TO THE UPPER RADIATOR HOSE TO GET THE OIL TEMP EXITING THE ENGINE.lol can someone make sense of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xr6greg Member 73 Member For: 16y 6m 19d Posted 03/07/09 07:10 AM Share Posted 03/07/09 07:10 AM "YELLOW/TEMP SENSOR CONNECT TO THE UPPER RADIATOR HOSE..."?Are you sure its an oil temp gauge seeing as those instructions would apply to a water temp guage?And...have you done the boiling water trick? Sensor out, dip it in boiling water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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