Temperature sender

[Helirich]

So it would appear that my water temperature guage reads a little low. I figured I would pull the lead on the sender and ground it to see if the gauge works. Maybe clean the spade connection. There's a sender looking thing by the water pump. But that has no effect on my guage. (I think it might be a switch for the fuel frequency logic.) Of course there's the switch on the driver's side tube for the fans. But I don't see any sender for the water temp.

For the third time, I went to the manual/parts list and couldn't find anything on the thing I'm working on. Amazing. Funny, it shows a diagram of the waterpump area and had the temp switch mentioned above pictured. It was labeled #24. When I went to the key, it only had numbers to 23. Lol. There was also a drawing of tubes under the intake that had two temp sender looking things. Of course they weren't labeled either. Anybody know if one of them is the gauge sender?

[David T]

That thing by the water pump WAS the Thermo-Time switch that runs the Cold Start Valve. By grounding it you probably burnt it out. The temp sender is on the front right side head.

[Helirich]

That thing by the water pump WAS the Thermo-Time switch that runs the Cold Start Valve. By grounding it you probably burnt it out. The temp sender is on the front right side head.

I didn't ground it. It was a two spade system, so I just shorted them together to see if the guage would move.

Thanks for the info on the sender.