[urq] Coolant temp sensor

Buchholz, Steven Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com
Tue Apr 5 20:48:37 EDT 2005


... looks like I had a bit of "coolant" on the brain ... should have
read "current" ... 

Steve
> 
> The urq did not come with a factory coolant temp gauge, it has a blue
> "cold" light on the dash and an overheat light.  If the PO used the
> sensor near the radiator flange to fashion some sort of temp gauge it
> would be quite likely to throw off the ECU.  I suppose if you had some
> sort of digital temp gauge it might put a low enough load on the
signal,
> but a standard temp gauge drives a good bit of coolant.
*************************************************current.
> 
> The factory coolant temp sensor is on the back of the head.  It is a 2
> wire unit, one switch contact for overheat and the variable resistance
> side used to light the cold light.



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