New Temp Gauge In. Autogauge Smoke.

[Lumpen Proletariat]

Temp gauge in the EB has been playing up and it was diagnosed as the ford gauge AND sender! So rather than hunt down a decent pair from a wrecker and run the risk of them failing again (hey, they're old components, they do fail) I decided to get a new gauge mounted in some form of pod.

My preferences were:

Electrical - No little tube of warm water to leak on something and go zap.
'Full' Sweep - Better clarity and precision
Degree's C - Only Imperial measurement I can't get my head around is Farenheit.


I ended up being tipped on to Autogauge and bought a 2" Autogauge Smoke gauge which apparently is a similar effect to the Defi series, though no nifty daisy chain or calibration dance etc. Stuck it in an el cheapo speco 2" cup. Tight fit, but meh.

Here is the result.




Cost of the gauge was $43 delivered (took about 2 weeks) and the Speco Pod was $10. Looks pretty good and gives me piece of mind...Well it should, if I wasn't running at 110*C! Nothing a new thermostat shouldn't fix.


While the dash was apart I also got some other niggles fixed including, the resistor on the (ac) fans fixed, yay! Now I have intermittent settings. The recirc/fresh control fudged It's stuck on recirc rather than fresh now, no more disel smell everytime I pass a semi. Finally got the Trip Computer put in and working, Nifty little beggar, instant reading provides some interesting results. As did the average reading after the auto sparky 'tested' the gauge. 36L/100km on a 4km trip e


Lumpy