re. is this bad gas?

[Ben Swann]

On Friday, December 13, 2002 10:13 AM, steinbru at vnet.ibm.com
[SMTP:steinbru at vnet.ibm.com] wrote:
> Ref:  Your post of Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:28:43 -0500 (attached)
>
> Ben, is the "FI thermo sender" the same as "multi-function sensor"
> we discuss here often (runs the guage among other things)?
>
They perform the same function on two different cars:

on 5000 turbo it is called MF temp. sender (among other things).

on 4000 CIS-E it is called he FI temp sender, at least that is what
Rod at thepartsconnection called it.

They are entirely different, but perform the same function for the two
different FI systems.

> Reason I ask, I have four Q's and two have bad MFTS (one completely
> dead, one flakey like they get before complete fail).  Had same on
> the (now nearly defunct) 5ks also.  Replacement hasn't seemed to
> affect anything but the guage.
>
It is possible for just the guage portion to break.  That might be a
warning that the rest of it will follow soon.

> So, 'splain me better what sender you mean.  Would my NG (CIS3) CGT
> have the same thing --IT does have periodic problems (but the guage
> in the digidash works fine on that one.  --Gary

CGT has a separate sender for the temp guage - that is located on top of
the neck, and the FI sender is on the bottom.  Unless the one with the
digi-dash is different than the normal dash guages, but I don't think so.

Ben