Temperature and Fuel Gauge woes
Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 7:40 pm
Months after putting in my fuel sending unit from a Valiant, (against your guys best wishes) I'm having issues with the temp gauge and fuel gauge working right 75 miles before the needle moves off Full. You can tell me you told me so.
This weekend I was chasing down what I thought was over heating issues.
It started on Friday when I was driving on a county road 55 MPH the temp gauge started to climb to the upper limit of the white arch, it then proceeded to exceed past that to the hot range. I pull over to let the truck cool. No immediate signs of over heating, no coolant blowing out, no steam, not a single thing.
I limp the truck over to O'Rielly's to by a temp gauge built into the radiator cap, as well as order a new water pump, thermostat 160 degree. I drive the truck back to my garage with the Temp gauge pegged at HOT. I hop out and check the gauge under the hood, its running at 175 degrees. So to me that's not too hot my Cummins runs 180, and my Hudson runs 165 all day long.
The next day I pull the thermostat off to replace it thinking that it could have been bad, but lo and behold there's no thermostat. The PO was a complete hack. I'll get to that later.
I throw the thermostat in and replace the water pump. Take the truck for a test drive and the gauge still maxes out. Check inside the coolant cap trucks running 170 degrees. So today I head to the junk yard and take a temp sensor off of a 64' swepty with a slant 6. But the temp sensor is too small. I am not 100 percent sure but I think the PO may have drilled an tapped the housing so that it could accept a mechanical gauge temp sensor. Or is this a different styled gauge? Tomorrow I'll be heading to the yard again to pull a temp gauge and a fuel sending unit from the same truck, would this possibly correct my issue? I don't think it is a ground or resistor issue, due to the gauges will read different from each other.
Now to rant about the PO. The temp switch inside the cab to make the truck hot in the winter was missing so the heat was always on... I pull the heater core to install a choke cable so I could turn the heat off, the PO cut the bottom of the Model 85 with a can opener and removed the control. I'll be picking up an entire unit tomorrow to hack apart, and get the control out of it.
Sorry for the long text post, any help will be appreciated.
This weekend I was chasing down what I thought was over heating issues.
It started on Friday when I was driving on a county road 55 MPH the temp gauge started to climb to the upper limit of the white arch, it then proceeded to exceed past that to the hot range. I pull over to let the truck cool. No immediate signs of over heating, no coolant blowing out, no steam, not a single thing.
I limp the truck over to O'Rielly's to by a temp gauge built into the radiator cap, as well as order a new water pump, thermostat 160 degree. I drive the truck back to my garage with the Temp gauge pegged at HOT. I hop out and check the gauge under the hood, its running at 175 degrees. So to me that's not too hot my Cummins runs 180, and my Hudson runs 165 all day long.
The next day I pull the thermostat off to replace it thinking that it could have been bad, but lo and behold there's no thermostat. The PO was a complete hack. I'll get to that later.
I throw the thermostat in and replace the water pump. Take the truck for a test drive and the gauge still maxes out. Check inside the coolant cap trucks running 170 degrees. So today I head to the junk yard and take a temp sensor off of a 64' swepty with a slant 6. But the temp sensor is too small. I am not 100 percent sure but I think the PO may have drilled an tapped the housing so that it could accept a mechanical gauge temp sensor. Or is this a different styled gauge? Tomorrow I'll be heading to the yard again to pull a temp gauge and a fuel sending unit from the same truck, would this possibly correct my issue? I don't think it is a ground or resistor issue, due to the gauges will read different from each other.
Now to rant about the PO. The temp switch inside the cab to make the truck hot in the winter was missing so the heat was always on... I pull the heater core to install a choke cable so I could turn the heat off, the PO cut the bottom of the Model 85 with a can opener and removed the control. I'll be picking up an entire unit tomorrow to hack apart, and get the control out of it.
Sorry for the long text post, any help will be appreciated.