SW wings gauges fault.

Wired up a Wings water temperature gauge with new sender unit to the flathead, good power to ignition side but gauge reads 240 degrees and does not move. Using a light buld tester gives a weak light at the sender side of the unit and no reading at ground, any ideas?

 

Was it made in Mexico? If so, there's about a 90% chance that it was junk before you ever opened it.

I'll only run NOS, made in the USA, SW gauges or no SW gauges at all.

JH

 

Too much tape are sealer on the threads ???????????

 

Thanks, could be.

 

could be a bad sender , i had that problem on a SW temp gauge a couple years ago

 

Bad sender....I had one similar to that about a month ago, failed to max temp....I freaked out, shut it down, put another guage on and it worked fine, replaced the sending unit, and weird, it worked fine...

 

Disconnect the wire at the sender and with the key on the guage should go all the way to one side, ground that same wire and the guage should go all the way the to the other direction. If it does you know everything from the wire to guage and power feed is O.K. and you probably have a sender or sender ground or connection problem. If not you could have a guage or wire connection problem. Of course this has nothing to do with the accuracy of the guage only that it works. Good luck!

 

I just went back to the sending unit that came in my car. With the new wire in place and the OLD sending unit, ran 190 degrees all day today...when I was looking at the sending units, there were 3 different manufactures of the same part number...buddy up to your NAPA guy and see if he will order up all three to see which one works. The other sending units showed my temp at 260 all the time

 

I have the same problem with their deluxe gauge... 240 all the time... I have put an infrared thermometer on the engine and radiator and all temps look good. I have also had 2 sending units in the engine and get the same thing... I am going to try a mechanical gauge to see what happens...

 

I bought one of the Sears laser units. It showed me that my problem was something other than temp. I have a radiator cap with a thermometer in it as my back up...now my gauge works...maybe I should try to get the speedo to work