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Old 01-11-2018, 07:17 AM   #11
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Re: Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on.

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Originally Posted by Tech II View Post
When you checked the voltage on the wires, how did you do this?

Did you attach meter to ground, and with harness disconnected, touch each lead one at a time? In this scenario, you would get the voltage readings you got...

Did you connect both leads to each wire in the harness? Doing it this way, you should have got around 5.0 volts, but if you got 0.0 volts, that means there is an open in either wire......when you do this test, you should flex the harness wire to see if the voltage drops, indicating a bad connection/open wire....
I attached one meter lead to one wire at a time with the other lead to ground. I figured 5V was the correct incoming reference voltage used to drop across the varying resistance of the sensor.
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