[V8] Temp Sensor

[allanvega at adelphia.net]

Check your fan clutch. I never hear this suggested,yet is almost alway the culprit with the symptoms your having. I know it was in my case. Allan
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> From: "bob moy" <mmodels at hotmail.com>
> Date: 2004/10/05 Tue PM 03:59:11 EDT
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: [V8] Temp Sensor
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> Instead of just throwing money into the car, why not instead, try to figure 
> what is wrong with the car.  If the car runs normal on the highway and 
> doesn't overheat then you thermostat is OK.
> 
> The temperature sensor at head of the left bank cylinders does indeed 
> control the temperature gauge.  The other temperature sensor is located on 
> the bottom rightside of the radiator.  Unplug this sensor and the fan will 
> use the head sensor to determine if the engine is overheating.
> 
> Does your car overheat all the time or just in stop and go traffic?  Does it 
> overheat while driving along the highway?  Could be that you have a clogged 
> radiator which is causing the engine to overheat.  Because the radiator is 
> clogged hot coolant is no getting to the lower sensor fast enough.  When the 
> coolant finally reaches the sesnor the radiator have already cool the 
> coolant down enough that the sensor does not register an overheat condition.
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> [V8] Temp Sensor
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> Tue Oct 5 08:42:44 EDT 2004
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> I am going to buy a thermostat from the dealer and hope that helps my 
> overheating issue.  I figured while I am throwing parts at the car why not 
> replace the temp sensor.  As I understand it, the one on the front of the 
> head is the g63 and this is the one that the cabin gauge reads?  I unplugged 
> it today and the gauge went to zero...I thought it was supposed to use the 
> signal from another sensory if the one on the front of the head was 
> unplugged.  Does my needle going to zero when I unplugged signal that this 
> other sensor is toast?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Justin Lewis
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