Re: [DMCForum] dead temperature gauge

[<eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walt

Thanks for your suggestions

Let me ask you this- how is the temperature gauge hooked up? I couldn't
find much of a schematic for it in the service manual, and I'd like to
backtrack to the sensor just to make sure I didn't shoot myself in the
foot at some point in time.

Thanks

Eric
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Walter Coe 
  To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [DMCForum] dead temperature gauge


  Eric,

  I don't see show anything you did could have affected the temperature
gauge.
  The fact that it jumps a bit when you turn the key indicates that it
isn't
  frozen in place and that it is still electrically connected.  But you
say it
  is in the 5 o'clock position?  Forgive me if I have this totally
backwards
  because I honestly can't tell my right from left most of the time, but
for
  the needle to point in that direction would indicate that it has
dislocated
  somehow.  I think the only valid positions are from around 7 through 11
  o'clock.

  I suggest bending a piece of wire and sticking it through the hole for
the
  odometer reset switch.  Through here you should be able to push the
needle
  around where it belongs.  This might fix it.  Otherwise you would need
to
  take the gauge out to see what went wrong.

  Not all DeLorean gauges are the same.  Some tend to move slowly like
they
  are fluid-dampened; others tend to be jittery and respond quickly to
spikes.
  I think that you might have a jittery gauge that happened to swing too
far
  around and got stuck.  If this is the case, then it would be hard to
tell
  which way it spun around before it stuck.  If you try to unstick it by
  pushing it the other way then you could make it worse.

  Walt


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