LMAO!!!

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we're talking about my 850 fellas.
leave makka alone for crying out loud, picky bitches

As far as I know it can be either your gauge or your temperature sender unit to test your gauge you can disconnect the wire to the sender unit and briefly short it out to the block. I don't know what happens if you leave it too long but I don't think it's recomended .

Anyway, if the guage is working the gauge will rise up to full temperature (you don't have to wait that long). If that's the case I think it is most likely your temperature sender unit, I think the sender unit I got was about $30 (I don't know if this is a decent price though). All of this was on my clubman so if the wiring or anything else is different on the 850 I don't know

there is a bit about temp guage calibration in the technical tips section of:
http://www.hotbricks.org.au/

Or I am sure I saw an article somewhere on
http://www.minimania.com/Article_List.cfm
but I can't find it now sorry

Bye, Arrin

gee that was a long time ago
and since i have not spoken to jon
makka

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Guys....you know how to boil water??

Well you get your brand new thermostat (the ones that have trouble opening?) and a thermometer .... heat slowly in saucepan full of water and watch the thing open or close as the temp goes up and down (take the saucepan off the heat, put it back on etc)

I once pre-checked a temp guage by wiring it all up and bringing a saucepan, campstove, thermometer out to the garage....really I could have done the same thing with a 12V battery on the bench!!

As for cheap parts..........grrrrrr.........I once bought a cheap mechanical fuel pump for a HX Holden...to cut a long story short.....the agonising night spent on the side of the road coming back from Melbourne, in the pitch dark with trucks not seeing us till the last minute was NOT fun!!

Buy good quality stuff.....and it pays you back ten times over...

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hey there guys and gals,

Install a new sender unit as the one you have in the block has probably been there 4 ages - just like Fuzzy Hair sez a few posts above.

Recently changed the head on Dylans clubby and put in the new sender - bought it for $16 from the mini Specialist in Moolap near Geelong. Me thinks you got ripped off at $30 Fuzzy. The manufacture of the part is ECHLIN - hope it's not the cheapy that other people are talking about but I wouldn't think so as I got it from a Mini Specialist

Cheers

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I just got back recently from a trip to Coffs Harbour from Canberra, about 2000km roughly, we took NAV and it just charged along, mind you it is a fully re-built engine with new pumps and a recoed alternator.

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i understand makka perfectly fine
you guys just need to say it all in your heads

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that right ...........
but then again dok you are a uni person and them professors are weird
makka

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