Temperature gauge
- Thread starter CRS
- Start date
This site contains affiliate links for which LandyZone may be compensated if you make a purchase.
Always done this or just started?
Can be compatability issues between engine temp sender & the vehicle gauge, common with engine transplants.
My own RR Classic has had a couple of temp senders go faulty. Either doesn't read at all or shoots off the top of the scale.
Can be compatability issues between engine temp sender & the vehicle gauge, common with engine transplants.
My own RR Classic has had a couple of temp senders go faulty. Either doesn't read at all or shoots off the top of the scale.
Gord Wedman
Well-Known Member
- Posts
- 617
- Location
- Chilliwack, British Columbia
You could buy an IR thermometer to check engine temp. I find very handy for finding overheating parts. I would expect you need the sender that matches the dash, namely 89 Defender. If you can't get this to fit the engine there are T adapters that go in a radiator hose into which you fit the sender. Don't know if the Defender one would go in one of these adapters but you might be able to re- thread it.
They look pretty different to me so you should be able to tell externally.
200 Tdi Discovery > 90/110 Archives - Parts for Land Rover | Spares for Land Rover (steveparkers.com)
J
200 Tdi Discovery > 90/110 Archives - Parts for Land Rover | Spares for Land Rover (steveparkers.com)
J
You need to match the sender & the gauge.
3 choices really.
1. Fit the sender that matches the gauge
2. Fit the gauge that matches the sender.
3. Buy a good quality aftermarket gauge & sender & fit that which should give you an accurate reading instead of the there or thereabouts of the first two. Hopefully you might get a few recommendations off people that have done that. Only problem with that is it will be something else to keep looking at & worrying about!
3 choices really.
1. Fit the sender that matches the gauge
2. Fit the gauge that matches the sender.
3. Buy a good quality aftermarket gauge & sender & fit that which should give you an accurate reading instead of the there or thereabouts of the first two. Hopefully you might get a few recommendations off people that have done that. Only problem with that is it will be something else to keep looking at & worrying about!
brianp38dse
Well-Known Member
- Posts
- 20,107
- Location
- heathrow
If the right sensor is smaller than the one n the head get a bush mad up with the right threads
