While you were at work on Monday, I was doing work.
Alright I'll update my build thread before I go blogging should kill enough time for vimeo to tell me the video is done uploading.
This is my Monday, what you see is about 12 bucks worth of heatshrink I’m mailing out to NC today for a friend. two do it yourself plug thingies. a pan, a temp sensor, a greddy temp gauge missing the sensor plug (hence the science experiment.) soldering wire, water wetter (I don’t believe this stuff does your car any good but I just like buying it.) 50/50 coolant mix (I was just running all coolant before.) 1M Ohm 1W resistor pack (to terminate the knock sensor if it dares throw a code 34 again) some hose clamps for the temp sensor probe.
Oh yeah and 4 packs of 400 grit sandpaper and a sanding block.
And that’s about it. Check back later and I will throw up detailed explanations of everything I am doing today .
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Alright after running my errands and getting my package on the way to NC I came back to the tilt(house) and chilled for a minute. A minute turned into 4:30pm, then I made some coffee because I just wanted to sleep really and have been fighting it all day. You can see it pretty much in the video at the end of this.
I had 3 greddy gauges in my car obviously that belonged to the turbo KA24DE that grenaded before I owned the car and was removed. Now they were just in my glove box and stupid, who looks in their glove box for car temps?
Not I.
Anyway I ask for the water temp sensor back because my gauge cluster is not showing what the operating temp is and that scares the dick out of me. He lets me know that he doesn't have the male half of the sensor sub harness because I never gave it to him. I know it was somewhere in my garage, but my roommates accidentally may have thrown it away so fuck it I'll make my own.
I called my brother and asked for the pinout of the sub-harness to his greddy oil temp gauge I gave him, and turns out it's black, white, red... why 3 wires if the sensors only have 2 plugs. *shrugs* the gauge instructions don't mention anything as to what the white wire is for and the pictures show only two wires so my brother said throw the temp sensor in some hot water and test it.
I have a good feeling that it's the outer wires only that even send a signal to the gauge.
lights off, and lights on. Great so the gauge has lights I can seez it.
I turned the car to the on position and then took my heat gun and blasted the temperature probe for about 12 minutes. The car had no coolant in it at all at the time.
2. white - ???
3. red - power/input *shrugs*
*after testing, I only used 2 wires on the 2nd plug, black and white middle plug #2 was not used or pinned.
and just to be safe, after I soldered the wires directly to the back of the gauge since I knew they were not going to stay there themselves I heat shrunk them onto the prongs to prevent contact from anything else...
after filling the engine with fluid, waiting for the bubbles to blow, jiggling the radiator and feeling the hoses to make sure no more bubbles blopped back up is when I finally cranked the car and then I topped off the radiator again. This is not shown in the video for sake of time.
This is my Monday, what you see is about 12 bucks worth of heatshrink I’m mailing out to NC today for a friend. two do it yourself plug thingies. a pan, a temp sensor, a greddy temp gauge missing the sensor plug (hence the science experiment.) soldering wire, water wetter (I don’t believe this stuff does your car any good but I just like buying it.) 50/50 coolant mix (I was just running all coolant before.) 1M Ohm 1W resistor pack (to terminate the knock sensor if it dares throw a code 34 again) some hose clamps for the temp sensor probe.
Oh yeah and 4 packs of 400 grit sandpaper and a sanding block.
And that’s about it. Check back later and I will throw up detailed explanations of everything I am doing today .
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Alright after running my errands and getting my package on the way to NC I came back to the tilt(house) and chilled for a minute. A minute turned into 4:30pm, then I made some coffee because I just wanted to sleep really and have been fighting it all day. You can see it pretty much in the video at the end of this.
I had 3 greddy gauges in my car obviously that belonged to the turbo KA24DE that grenaded before I owned the car and was removed. Now they were just in my glove box and stupid, who looks in their glove box for car temps?
Not I.
Anyway I ask for the water temp sensor back because my gauge cluster is not showing what the operating temp is and that scares the dick out of me. He lets me know that he doesn't have the male half of the sensor sub harness because I never gave it to him. I know it was somewhere in my garage, but my roommates accidentally may have thrown it away so fuck it I'll make my own.
I called my brother and asked for the pinout of the sub-harness to his greddy oil temp gauge I gave him, and turns out it's black, white, red... why 3 wires if the sensors only have 2 plugs. *shrugs* the gauge instructions don't mention anything as to what the white wire is for and the pictures show only two wires so my brother said throw the temp sensor in some hot water and test it.
So I did just that.
I have a good feeling that it's the outer wires only that even send a signal to the gauge.
hrmn weird water is boiling but nothing. I bet this gauge needs to have power to even work, damnit.
big thumbs down. I didn't want to do electrical today.
well at least this sensor bung properly lengthened my upper radiator hose so now my radiator isn't leaning like a cholo anymore.
well at least this sensor bung properly lengthened my upper radiator hose so now my radiator isn't leaning like a cholo anymore.
I eventually turned that thing upside down kind of.
big ass cup of coffee, wire spool, more wiring headaches.
about 20 minutes later.
about 20 minutes later.
BYAH BYAH!!! Looks just like the rest of my harness now, and even has the tension spring over the sleeve. (That was a fucking bitch to get over the sleeving. So I put a small piece of heat shrink over the top so some ass cheese doesn't come behind me yanking on it later and pulls the sleeving out of the spring somehow.
I've learned from my previous mistakes, test first then do the nice shit later.
lets do a pre-lim test shall we.
lets do a pre-lim test shall we.
lights off, and lights on. Great so the gauge has lights I can seez it.
I turned the car to the on position and then took my heat gun and blasted the temperature probe for about 12 minutes. The car had no coolant in it at all at the time.
The gauge has a slight lag I think but hey it works.
And just to make sure that it's not just some electrical feedback that caused the needle to jump.
And just to make sure that it's not just some electrical feedback that caused the needle to jump.
I iced the probe... this also took about 10 minutes and some cold ass fingers later.
cool as ice.
Quick wiring rundown.
Greddy Gauge has 7 prongs on the back, two plugs.
1st plug.
Greddy Gauge has 7 prongs on the back, two plugs.
1st plug.
1.Red - constant 12v (tap into the orange/green for +12v)
2. Orange - ACC/Ignition (tap into the orange/black on the cig lighter)
3. White - illumination (tap into the red/blue wire)
4. Black - ground (tap into the ground for the cig lighter)
2. Orange - ACC/Ignition (tap into the orange/black on the cig lighter)
3. White - illumination (tap into the red/blue wire)
4. Black - ground (tap into the ground for the cig lighter)
2nd plug.
1. black - ground2. white - ???
3. red - power/input *shrugs*
*after testing, I only used 2 wires on the 2nd plug, black and white middle plug #2 was not used or pinned.
It doesn't matter how the plugs connect to the sensor as long as there is a positive and negative on each end.
and just to be safe, after I soldered the wires directly to the back of the gauge since I knew they were not going to stay there themselves I heat shrunk them onto the prongs to prevent contact from anything else...
after filling the engine with fluid, waiting for the bubbles to blow, jiggling the radiator and feeling the hoses to make sure no more bubbles blopped back up is when I finally cranked the car and then I topped off the radiator again. This is not shown in the video for sake of time.
W.E.
