This all sounds very reminiscent of a certain scene near the end of a certain film ;-) Liam Kevin Wrote: As far as the temp gauge is concerened,I cleaned the connection and it still did not work. I saw a posting when someone said bash the binnacle !!!!!!!!!! and this should work O/K OH Really !!!! So I bashed the binnacle out of frustration, rather than antcipating it would --- Abracadbra it now works. Why does this fix it? it goes from pointing directly down to bottom of the number on the gauge. Answers please Kevin # 5959