I'm sure that most modern coolant temperature gauges do something like this... the needle never moves but you can see the temp fluctuating quite a bit with diagnostics.I love that statement "it doesn't measure anything - it just goes to a reassuring position when the engine is running"
No, the gauges are different too - the swap needs both the gauge and the sender from a pre'94(?) MK1. I did look at modifying the later gauge to work with a pressure sender, but it gets quite messy - the gauge is full of very heavy damping oil and takes several seconds to move. I quite fancy the option of being able to display other things there too. ([cough] Boost [/cough] )If you replace the MX5 switch with an oil pressure sender off a Eunos, the gauge will work. The gauges are the same, just the switches are different. It is on the mk1’s
That just seems to be a claim waiting to happen, to me. "Well, of course I was monitoring the oil pressure gauge, but my engine still exploded". I'm even more surprised a Japanese manufacturer would be doing something like that.
I'm sure that most modern coolant temperature gauges do something like this... the needle never moves but you can see the temp fluctuating quite a bit with diagnostics
I had two of those, a 1.1 and later a 1.7. That was a hoot, 90 BHP and weighed not much more than a Mini.MY old shape Renault 5 avoided all this guage trouble by not having one . . . when the fan belt fell off in central London back when I working there in 1991 ish, I couldn't work out what all the funning noises coming from the front were, or the sudden random shaking of the car in traffic . . .
I hadn't noticed the little red light come on in the dash . . . the coolant was boiling merrily. Parked it, walked into the shopping areas for a time, wandered back, drove it back to digs in Peckham. Strong engine!
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Filled up two green bins, so most of it is gone. A stump grinder would bebuseful but instead I have a few sacrificial chainsaw chains and a pickaxe.
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