Joined
·
27 Posts
Hello all!
First post here as I recently (yesterday) acquired a 1981 El Camino Conqista with a 305 and a 3 speed auto. Diving head first into tinkering and getting this thing fixed up! First order of business is I want to get all the interior gauges working (especially water temp). So far I have no speedometer, no water temp and the battery voltage seems intermittent. The oil pressure needle is actually broken (strange) but I can see it moving, and it definitely has oil pressure 😁. As far as the speedometer goes, going to go through the cables tonight and do the attaching a drill to the cable inside trick and see if I can pinpoint that. Will report back on any findings. As far as the water temp gauge, I am a little confused. I have the sender, with the green sender wire connected to it on the driver side on the block, and that appears to head straight to the gauge. Now, I also have a sensor in the coolant elbow on my intake manifold with NOTHING plugged into it. Is something supposed to be plugged into it? I'm also trying to grasp the difference between the sensor and sender and there jobs. Any info on troubleshooting appreciated. As far as battery voltage, Im assuming something is loosely connected somewhere, as it bounces up and down. Sorry for the long winded post, but thank you for taking the time to read.
First post here as I recently (yesterday) acquired a 1981 El Camino Conqista with a 305 and a 3 speed auto. Diving head first into tinkering and getting this thing fixed up! First order of business is I want to get all the interior gauges working (especially water temp). So far I have no speedometer, no water temp and the battery voltage seems intermittent. The oil pressure needle is actually broken (strange) but I can see it moving, and it definitely has oil pressure 😁. As far as the speedometer goes, going to go through the cables tonight and do the attaching a drill to the cable inside trick and see if I can pinpoint that. Will report back on any findings. As far as the water temp gauge, I am a little confused. I have the sender, with the green sender wire connected to it on the driver side on the block, and that appears to head straight to the gauge. Now, I also have a sensor in the coolant elbow on my intake manifold with NOTHING plugged into it. Is something supposed to be plugged into it? I'm also trying to grasp the difference between the sensor and sender and there jobs. Any info on troubleshooting appreciated. As far as battery voltage, Im assuming something is loosely connected somewhere, as it bounces up and down. Sorry for the long winded post, but thank you for taking the time to read.