[MR2] Sparatic temp gauge

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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Donald Chalfant <dkchal at datasync.com> wrote:
> It looks like your temp sender problem has been caught up in the seat belt.  There is a test for it in the BGB, and unfortunately that's no longer on line, is it?    I'm not sure about the NA but it appears that a signal is being sent to the ECU (that's what's causing the engine bogging) as well as the dash gauge.)
>
> I've got to be someplace now but late today I'll look in my BGB and see what it says.
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Ethan Adams
>  To: mr2 at mr2.com
>  Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 4:12 PM
>  Subject: [MR2] Sparatic temp gauge
>
>
>  Hey there, so I just had to put a new engine into my 91 non turbo
>  because I had a bearing seize up! So that wasn't fun. Luckily I know a
>  mechanic who helped me out by letting me and two friends use his shop
>  and tools to do it. I still put in a non turbo engine just because of
>  the cost but when we finished we took it out and it feels like its
>  running better than ever except for the fact that when I looked at the
>  temperature gauge on the dash its been displaying it as right below
>  red! So I thought it was over heating and released the pressure in the
>  radiator and made sure that the engine had enough antifreeze.
>  Afterwards I started it and it still said it was over 3/4's up on the
>  gauge. So I opened the lid again the engine really isn't that hot at
>  all. It was warm but still cool enough that we could reach in and mess
>  around with our hands inside while it was still running.
>  So we decided that we know its not over heating at least and chose to
>  just drive it home. It did make it the full seven miles and didn't
>  have any problems except that the gauge would spike up and down
>  randomly when accelerating or decelerating. It wouldn't have any
>  problems from that except that whenever the temperature spiked ABOVE
>  red the check engine light would flash and the engine would choke and
>  try to die for just a second. Im not 100 percent positive that it only
>  flashed and choked when it went over red but that seemed to be the
>  most common thing.
>  Im not sure if the two things are connected or seperate issues but im
>  hoping and assuming that it has to do a false reading of the
>  temperature.. also we decided we will go ahead and make sure that the
>  timing is correct too and maybe thats what the issue is behind the
>  choking. I was just gonna ask if you all had any thoughts, advice,
>  ideas, suggestions, anything to help try to fix this thing. So
>  anything is helpful!
>
>  Ps: to better describe the "choking" is its a lot like when your
>  stopped in first gear and release off the clutch and normally it would
>  die except with this it doesn't fully die... it doesn't seem to have
>  any connection to the clutch either though.
>
>  --
>  ~ Ethan
>
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