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Veedubgt18v

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Temperature sender
« on: 01 February 2004, 13:52 »
i have fitted my gauges and they all work good! but the temp sender on the filter housing wasnt able to run the mfa and the vdo gauge. so any ideas where i can a)either put a second temp sender, or b) where i can get a t piece adapter from so i can run 2 temp senders from on top of the oil filter housing?
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Offline mk1

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Re:Temperature sender
« Reply #1 on: 01 February 2004, 14:10 »
Does your oli filter housing have a blanking plug in it for a extra switch. Has a 5mm allen key head and I think the thread is the same as the temp switch.
Steve.
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Veedubgt18v

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Re:Temperature sender
« Reply #2 on: 01 February 2004, 15:03 »
nah its got one for oil pressure and one for oil temp
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Blue MK2

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Re:Temperature sender
« Reply #3 on: 01 February 2004, 15:07 »
this post will help me out aswel. oil temp doesnt work.

Is it the yellow wire for pressure? and green wire for oil temp ??? lost :-\
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Veedubgt18v

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Re:Temperature sender
« Reply #4 on: 01 February 2004, 15:10 »
yeah green is temp and yellow is pressure. the temp sender is the smaller of the two senders on the filter housing and the pressure is the larger one at the back
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Blue MK2

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Re:Temperature sender
« Reply #5 on: 01 February 2004, 15:14 »
sorry about the hijack but are they easy to replace and how much from VW?
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Veedubgt18v

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Re:Temperature sender
« Reply #6 on: 01 February 2004, 15:16 »
dont know how much from vw but they are easy to replace the just unscrew with a socket!
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Blue MK2

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Re:Temperature sender
« Reply #7 on: 01 February 2004, 15:26 »
im sure you could make your own. Buy the bits from halfords and crimp two together ???
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Re:Temperature sender
« Reply #8 on: 01 February 2004, 18:14 »
Not a lot from VW, my oil pressure sender was leaking and I got a new one for about ?7 I think. stopped the leak too.

I've had a look on the net for VDO stuff and couldn't find that much to be honest.

I get the theory with the Pressure sender just being replaced with an audi sender with two connectors on it. one for the idiot light on the dash and one for the gauge.

I am also interested in a definate answer to the wiring up of the temp gauge as I am going to be buying a set of VDO gauges for my car.

What set up does the audi have that the gauges come from ?
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Veedubgt18v

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Re:Temperature sender
« Reply #9 on: 01 February 2004, 18:18 »
the audi has one temp sender which only powers the manual dial, i dont think they had an mfa or anything so only had to have 1 sender. the golf has the mfa but no dial so only needed 1 sender. do you gt my drift? dial and mfa = 2 senders needed. i tried to wire both to one sender but my mfa went weird.
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