Oil temp gauge

[Huw Powell]

I hate to sound caustic, but you need the Bentley shop manual.

Too lazy to work it out on my own for you.

- Huw

On 6/13/2013 2:01 PM, Marco Weibel wrote:
> Hello listers
>
> 1984 CGT
> I am in the process of cleaning up the wiring behind the centre console...
> As usual on a 30 year old car its not all stock back there anymore.
> My question is particularly about the oil temp gauge wiring.
> What i so far figured and works:
> There are two black round connectors that correspond  with the gauges. One bigger 4-pole connector brings 12V/ground tho all the gauge-illumination and Volt-meter and after about a foot long wire loom also has a white rectangular connector (double 6mm/double 3mm female spade) that i think once fed the OEM radio, right ? Thats all good.
>
> Now there is also the small round 2-pole connector.
> I only have the gauge side of it. One of the PO must of tinkered with that... the car side is missing.
> I only have a blue/white-ring wire (oil-preasure, right ?) with a self-crimped spade that was butchered on to the small round connectors blue/white striped wire. That works too...
> What i am missing is the other wire that would work the Oil-temp which is green/black on the gauge side of the connector.
>
> What color am i looking for on the car side ?
>
> Is oil-pr and -temp coming in through the same loom ?
>
> I even cut back the flex sleeve as much as i could to check if that wire was cut short and slid back into it but ....nothing.
> Under the hood I checked continuity from the oil-pump to where the wire (black) disappears behind the firewall.
> It's good.
>
> Can i lay a new wire from the pump mounted sender directly to the gauge ?
> Or is there something in between still ?
>
> Thanks for looking
>
>   Marco Weibel
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