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Re: [TR] Temp gauge failure

To: "'Triumph List'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] Temp gauge failure
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:14:54 -0700
> Any ideas?

As a quick test, you can remove the wire from the temperature sender and
connect it to ground.  That should make the gauge read full scale.

>  Do these things just die?

They can.  There is a resistance wire inside the gauge that can burn out or
break.  But of course it could just as easily be a broken wire or bad
connection somewhere else.

>  I did replace the voltage stabilizer last year when it was on the
> fritz,
> but don't know if there's any connection.

The VS does drive both the temp gauge and the fuel gauge.  But that means if
the problem were the VS, you'd expect to see the fuel gauge also read zero.

Randall
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