It should. The sender is nothing more than a thermistor that changes resistance as the temperature increases or decreases.
That being the case, if you ground the wire to the sender I would expect the gauge to go full scale. Dan On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The continuing saga: > > I wondered if grounding one end would send the temp gauge high so I took a > jumper wire out with me. Fred had it backwards, the passenger side temp > sensor is in charge of the aux fan, the top side one is for the > electo-magnetic fan clutch. I can actuate either by grounding its associated > connector with my ground wire but neither affects the gauge at all. > > Does the system compares the output of the two to control the gauge? I didn't > think to ground both of them, I'd need to make up another jumper wire. > > The wire to the aux fan sensor has something wrong with it, I can turn the > fan on by wiggling the connector, I can't do the same with the fan clutch > sensor. Fortunately the wire is a jumper, it goes into the loom over by the > fuel filter. It does look like the connector comes apart, when I have more > time I'll see whats up with it. I'll also email Rusty, it'd be great if I > could just buy a replacement... Anybody got a 201 parts car? > > -Curt > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
