guy's advice needed done my headgasket's seam o.k but worrie

[lee_capri]

done trhe head gasket's on the granny last night finshed it off tonight,and it is running and starting spot on,but im worried ive got to go to surry on thrusday,i have no temptre gauage so i have no idea how hot the car is,

 

ive had it running for about 1.5hr's includeing driveing and standing still for at least 10min's at a time

 

listern to the car i cant hear any-bubleing back into the expaion tank stood still,or when being turned off and restarted,the engine dont fell over hot,

 

it now start's off a flick of the key with no throtal and as also stoped playing up,which i think water presure was causeing this problum,

 

what you think sorted or not,sorry to be so long winded

[brad]

what do you need to get the temp guage working ? if its the guage , i have one , if its the sender , i have one . assuming its a v6 obviously.

[lee_capri]

im not sure mate as the petrol gauage dont work either,ive checked the fuse's under the bonnet,you would'nt know if they have one inside the car

[bomber1]

isnt there a resistor on the guages? why u coming down to surrey m8

[lee_capri]

dont no if their is ,ive got to pick my boy up from purbright f**k it il leave him their

[brad]

the only other fuses i know of are under the dash on the drivers side ? not sure if theres one for the guages tho . best thing to do with the temp guage is pull the wire off on the sender unit and earth it . the guage should flick straight to the top . like i said m8 if you need either bit for it let me know . it wont cost you (maybe a pint ).

[Jimbob-Squarepants ©]

All fuel and Temp gauges are permenantly live when the ignition switch is in number 2 position. The live feed will go through a voltage stabilizer which is a little rectangular box which is often mounted to the back of the clocks. What makes the gauges work are earths. These earths are variable and are controlled by the senders.

 

You can pull the temp sender wire off, switch on the ignition and you should have 12v at the wire... this goes for the fuel sender wire as well. As Brad said, if you send either wire to earth, the gauges should go to their highest reading.

 

Normally if the ignition fuse blows, the gauges will stop working, but so will the ignition lights. If everything else is working o.k, I would start with the voltage stabilizer

[brad]

just remembered , i have a full set of spare clocks in my garage if needed . i think ive got a whole granny in bits in my garage lol

[lee_capri]

i have earthed the wires out and the clocks dont move. so do you think it will be the box