Pinto temp sender help

[fezza]

Having issues with my temp gauge just in time for classic ford

Ive read that there are different senders indicater by colour? and the wrong combination can cause the gauge to read incorrectly or not at all,how do tell what sender is correct for my car,obviously its a pinto and i think the clocks are from a ghia??

 

Any help

[Posse]

Sounds to me trev as if its a bad earth ?

[Col-ashtonmobile]

the colour is where the terminal is , there,s black , blue , red , pink , yellow, grey , green , the one you need is actually white and a bullet terminal not a spade, should be able to get one from motor factors if not give us a shout as we have new ones

[fezza]

The sender has to be earthed through the engine Darren yes? so screwing the sender into the engine earths it ?

[Savvi]

Just been through this myself.

 

Just fit a normal Ghia temp sender as your using the original guages

 

 

When you think about it, it's obvious just cos it's another engine it's the guage that does the reading, water still gets the same temp

[russ105e]

the colour is where the terminal is , there,s black , blue , red , pink , yellow, grey , green , the one you need is actually white and a bullet terminal not a spade, should be able to get one from motor factors if not give us a shout as we have new ones

 

Is that the same for all pintos ? I've had issues with my gauge to

[Vista]

the colour is where the terminal is , there,s black , blue , red , pink , yellow, grey , green , the one you need is actually white and a bullet terminal not a spade, should be able to get one from motor factors if not give us a shout as we have new ones

 

Is that the same for all pintos ? I've had issues with my gauge to

 

Other than for the correct thread to screw into the block, and I think all Fords are the same thread, the engine is irrelevant with respect to the colour of the sender. You need the correct colour for the gauge in your dash, where ever that has been sourced from.

[silverstreak]

mine is red my sender unit is fooked so got alloy rad with electric fan will get new sender unit one day

[fezza]

Thanks for the info Col,i'll pick a white one up tomorrow

 

Just out of interest,i have an in-line temp sender in the top hose,am i right in thinking i cant use this with a normal gauge as its not earthed??

[Col-ashtonmobile]

is the one in the hose not a capillary type ?

[fezza]

Sorry Col whats a capillary type mate

[Col-ashtonmobile]

its not electrical is like a probe that gets warm directly to the gauge

[fezza]

No mate its not one of those,it has a temp sender just like the pinto one

[Col-ashtonmobile]

hmm not sure i would have to see it

[fezza]

Its like this col,i had an aftermarket temp gauge in the car but it wan'nt working and thats why im trying to sort the standard one,either working would be a bonus lol

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