[bullheimer]

so for a sending unit for a gauge is it always one wire? i have two on the old one. 1972 camaro

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[vicrod]

HUH

vicrod

[johnnymopar]

Originally Posted by bullheimer

so for a sending unit for a gauge is it always one wire? i have two on the old one. 1972 camaro

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so you're switching from a dummy light to a gauge? did you get a sending a unit for a gauge or dummy light?

JB

[docvette]

Doc here,

Are you going from a Stock sender / Lamp to an aftermarket Gauge/sender?

If so you only need the single wire that goes back to the dash, (that you have the best access to) and mark, cap, and tie back the other wire..Be sure the wire you use has continuity all through it and it is not on ground or power somewhere..(measure it Volts first, Ohms next) OR : you can opt for door #2..install a new single wire.

Doc

[bullheimer]

okay it's problem solved. the unit i am puttin in of course is for a guage, since i took out the idiot lights and put in the U-14 guage cluster. no, it's not aftermarket, it is the optional factory gauge-pack
i will find out which of the two wires is the hot and connect it to the guage and that is the only wire to go to the sending unit. i'll just cut off the ground where it goes thru the firewall and cap it off. maybe even under the console. too bad when i rewired my U14 that i even put that extra wire in.

[bullheimer]

doc, and others let me give you a little bit of pay back for the times you have helped me.

the camaro, at least the sec. gen, comes stock wtih a giant speedo and a giant gas guage and a whole bunch of idiot lights. this is the std. pos dash cluster.

for the guages, gages, gauges, whatever, you had to order the optional U 14 guage cluster, instrument package, whatever. that gave you the giant speedo, the giant tach, (only tach you could get) and all the guages. water temp, clock maybe, voltmeter or amp meter ammeter and gas. maybe the old guages had a giant gas gauge instead of a clock, i cant remember, i smoke way too much carck, not really. i only smp. so anyway. to convert from the dummy lights to the U-14 cluster requires a bit of pulling out the wires from the connector and adding a couple. it's pretty complicated and i suggest the only way in hell you are going to do in it is to go to www.nasty28.com and search there and get the pin locations.

to make a long story short. the only way to get the U14 H2O temp guage to work is you have to also replace the sending unit with one designed for the guage vs. the indiot light. i have had my troubles posted doing this. once i disconnect the ground and just run the hot to it i should be okay. there are alot of other changes, easy to do , to do this swap, i think this is the only sending unit change req'd. bye

[docvette]

Doc here,

I know the cluster unit (have a better word for it...but can't print it..) you refer too..I actually have a diagram for it in my Camero Book..

Tell me since you have one, My book does not show it, and I have wondered..Is that Giant tach a two piece unit ? A Control head to a Calibration card configuration? Have been asked many times and can't give an accurate answer on it..sure would like to know..

And also, (you may know already) you might need a Tach buffer for that unit between the Dizzy and the calibration card..(looks like a noise cap filter on the coil or points) but it is not..

It's two resistors in series with two bypass caps in parallel to ground it's sole purpose in life is to shape and buffer the waveform off the dizzy to the Tach, to keep from blowing out the calibration card..

In it's stock habitat, it was mounted on the manifold next to the dizzy, was about 3 inches long, round with a wire and connector out each end..If you ran without it your Tach reported in error at the low end, and it's day's were numbered..

Doc

[bullheimer]

doc, there are close up pictures in my journal of this. right at the end and maybe the second page from the end as well. there is a circuit card that the cluster is screwed to, or bolted to, for a ground, and that is why my tach didnt work. i have no other buffer unit as you describe, but my car is a 72. i think it matters because the camaro board i referred to they also made a reference to this same thing. soi think it depends on the year.

back to my-BELIEVE IT OR NOT- original question!!!!!!

i had two wires going to the temp. sending unit: a green one and a green with white stripe. this is weird doc. i have 12V from each one to ground! and i have no continuity from either to ground, so i dont know which one is ground. ity seems to me i remember that a wire with a white stripe always means ground but i don't remember. i hadda friend tell me that the g/wt was the one to hook up so i did and guess what! it didn't work!


i have since hooked it up to the other wire, i checked it and it worked....

the green wire gets all jiggy with it

[docvette]

Doc here,

The reason you were reading 12 volts on that line is because it was a ground referenced wire that didn't have a ground..

Like removing the ground wire on a light bulb..and putting a meter between it and ground..

It will read 12 volts but the lamp won't light..until you ground the wire..then the current is doing useful work, and the Voltage drops to zero..

Anyway glad to hear it is working now!

Doc