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15-02-2006, 04:34 AM | #1 | ||
Starter Motor
Join Date: Jan 2006
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My low coolant light has come on the dash although it is at the right level. Is there any chance that the idicator is broken and needs replacing, if so where is it......... is it the thing on the side of the water bottle with the black and red wires.....
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15-02-2006, 07:50 AM | #2 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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The indicator should only come on when the car is running. Have you checked it while running? i.e. is it dropping water as it's being circulated?
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15-02-2006, 07:57 AM | #3 | ||
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Open the lid and get a clean stick or something and give the float a little poke, otherwise I have found a few good thuds with your hand on top of the bottle sets things right. If it keeps happening then you might have to remove the sensor and clean it, they get a build up metal on them as they use a magnet.
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15-02-2006, 07:04 PM | #4 | ||
Starter Motor
Join Date: Oct 2005
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My Ed developed a hole in the float, i wouldnt pay $80 for a new one so unplugged it and bridged it out to make the light go away.
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15-02-2006, 09:39 PM | #5 | ||
Falcon Unbelievable!
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Uncle Henry's Garage
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My Low Coolant Light comes on all the time , I just look at it and think stupid bloody thing .... (damn thing doesn't even have a Low Coolant Sensor) it just thinks it does. Gets me how the computer can think it has one when it does not have the sensor on the side of the tank.
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17-02-2006, 02:27 AM | #6 | ||
Starter Motor
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Can someone please xplain to me how to pull it out to clean it..........
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17-02-2006, 02:58 AM | #7 | ||
they call me Tibbo
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brisbane
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with needle nose pliers. open the pliers so they fit into two of the holes of the sensor and undo it. then get a rag and some carby cleaner and clean the magnets between the 'beak'
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18-02-2006, 01:46 AM | #8 | ||
Starter Motor
Join Date: Jan 2006
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ok so call me an idiot, but I pulled it out and now can't remember which way it gors back in........ does the beak open up and down or sideways. :
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01-03-2006, 12:45 AM | #9 | ||
Starter Motor
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Just to let eveyone know the result. I bought a new Float from Ford as mine had got a leak and water inside...... cost me $22.30 for a new one.......
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01-03-2006, 03:24 PM | #10 | ||
Drought Breaker
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Gunnedah, NSW
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EA-AU all use the same EA-10K888-A low level sensor. Only difference in all those Falcons was the header bottles for different engines.
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