instrument voltage stabiliser

Post by **minor_hickup** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:14 pm

Too late onne i beat you too it! Sorry mate

Post by **Onne** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:16 pm

cheers for that! Saves one run to the car!

Post by **blueangelical** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:17 pm

hang on a minute, the place that you show in you excellant picture, I have a wire going to that (brown and green) - ???? but I don't have a temperature guage anywhere in the car-?? am I missing something??

Post by **Onne** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:18 pm

maybe they removed it. You could try and trace the wires

Post by **blueangelical** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:20 pm

so there should be a brown and green wire under the dash somewhere leading to nothing?? - I'll nip out now and have a look.......................................

Post by **minor_hickup** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:20 pm

maybe one was fitted but stopped working and was taken out? If I were you I'd trace the wire and see where its connected if you can. If you can't disconnect and see if anything isn't working. If not I would remove it and use the new one for piece of mind.

Post by **blueangelical** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:30 pm

well., I've had a jolly good look, and can't locate the wire or any wire behind the dash that doesn't have a home???, they must have taken it out like you say. I'll disconnect it tomorrow and kick the car up and check everything works, then I'll replace it with the new one... No wonder I couldn't find it, I didn't expect a wire to be coming from it already????., many thanks everyone for your help..

Post by **Onne** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:35 pm

good luck. Don't forget to put something underneath the car, there will be coolant coming out.

Says the one who forgot it

Post by **Willie** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:03 pm

The lead you have found is the variable earth side of the circuit and would
have gone straight to one side of the temp gauge. The other side would have
come from the Light Green wired terminal on the voltage stabilizer

Post by **Packedup** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:19 pm

Onne wrote:good luck. Don't forget to put something underneath the car, there will be coolant coming out.

It might be very unenvironmentally friendly of me in this day and age, but I tend to find teh planet acts as quite a good catcher of the rusty crud that pours out old engines ;)

Says the one who forgot it

If you're really quick and prepared, you can whip the old sender out and get the new one in enough turns to reduce the pour to a trickle without losing a great deal of coolant

Post by **Onne** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:33 pm

I know... but I aint quick

Post by **Packedup** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:41 pm

That'll be because your wheels appear to have fallen off...

;)

Post by **Onne** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:30 am

so that's the rough ride then...

Post by **blueangelical** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:18 am

New guage in, little coolant lost, the ground was good enough to catch it for me !! what do I replenish this with, is there a brand/type that moggie people generally go for??

Post by **Onne** » Fri May 26, 2006 6:59 pm

cheap and cheerful stuff, the green/blue sort. I have got -36 coolant, protected with antifreeze. Works really well

I am using Comma Coldmaster -36 I think

Post by **bigginger** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:03 pm

Whatever is cheap at Halfords, me...

Post by **Onne** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:06 pm

I can get it for free now. The joys of working at a radiator specialist

Post by **bigginger** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:08 pm

Post by **Onne** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:11 pm

and no, I will not be taking 50 gallons with me. sorry for that!

Post by **blueangelical** » Fri May 26, 2006 8:17 pm

25gallons? - will pop in halfords 2morrow, cheers