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I have recently aquired a triple gauge fuel/oil/temp out of a HQ GTS. I am trying to fit it in to my Kingswood but seem to be have trouble identifing which conector on the guage does what. I have already worked out that I need to change the sender units over. any help would be great
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Jester,
I fitted one of these to my HQ Belmont... from what I remember, the colours are the same, and are printed on the back of the gauge. ie -there is "drk grn" printed next to the spade connector for the oil gauge, and the wire that used to go to t
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Thanks Jason Do you remember if you changed you rsender units over? And it would be great if yo could send a few pics to help me along. cheers
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If your car had an idiot light for temp before, you must change both the oil and temp senders. If it had an original Holden temp gauge before, you just need to change the oil pressure sender.
Jason is correct, the colour coding of the wiring is identic
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The tripple guage you mention was an optional guage for any HQ with the standard dash , GTS and Statesman did not use these as they had seperate small guages.
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Jester,
Yep, as Dave said, I changed the senders, too.
I originally had a fuel gauge, temp light, and oil light.
New gauge had fuel gauge, temp gauge, and oil gauges.
So I had to change the temp sender (same wire, simply change sender and re-a
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Hi Jason.
That last idea is a good one, I use it on my cars.
The double adaptor, or T will only work with the oil senders. For the temp senders you have to have them both in the water flow, so you have to find an alternate 'hole' for the 2nd temp se |
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Thanks Dr Terry... I hadn't got beyond the concept stage! :-)
I might have a hunt around and see if there are any obvious spots for a second sensor.
Cheers,
Jason.
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Hi again Jason.
Without being picky, the triple gauge set you have, is the one that fits into the original fuel gauge square, right ? If so, that is not HQ GTS, is is an accessory gauge set for Belmont, Kingswood, Premier etc. Doesn't matter, because t |
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Dr Terry,
Correct you are, my mistake. It's from a premier and fits in the original square hole.
Ta for the info on the thermo housing - I'll file it away for when I re-fit the idiot lights.
Cheers,
Jason.
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I read a earlier topic about the the fuel sender being swaped because of a change made during the HQ run. I have been trying to find a fuel sender for a 72 HQ as the gauge i have is from one. mines a 74. Does anyone know wht type of sender is in the earie
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