I have just fitted a new VDO temp gauge and sender to my car. The power and the earth seems ok. I have run a new wire previously from the sender so it should be fine too.
But I ran it until it was warm today and it wasnt moving.

How do I test if my sender, or the wire from it, is at fault?

_________________
Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

is it running through a voltage stabiliser?

_________________
Ryan Filippi
Minis In The Gong
[email protected]
www.minisinthegong.com.au

Earth the wire at the sender gauge should shoot up to full or max. If it diesnt you have a power supply or wiring fault. As ryan said is it running from the minis voltage stabilizer? It would cause a wrong reading but gauge should still move.

Check power supply

_________________
The best part of fixing your mini is the test drive

Minis..

1976 van daily drive
1975 van
1968 deluxe in the shed
1967 deluxe high strung 1310
1959 austin healey sprite

How did you get on with your temp gauge MrFail?
Did you remove the thread tape from the sender unit?

Cheers Shane

_________________
If it's not a Cooper S, the mini was designed to be modified!

Nope I didn't end up needing to afterall. I tried earthing the Sender with my jumper leads and it didnt make any difference, so I figured that it must be something else.

The actual problem was quite funny. I had used a little bit of new wire that I had that came with terminals already crimped on to connect the gauge to my sender wire.

Here was the problem. Stupid person that put the terminal on. It doesnt work too well withour the wire actuall touching the metal. Haha.


Once I took that off and connected it up amazingly it worked. Haha
Thanks for the help

_________________
Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

Ha Ha Ha, glad the fix was simple!

Cheers Shane

_________________
If it's not a Cooper S, the mini was designed to be modified!