Hi friends, I'd been wanting an OBS diesel for years now and a few weeks ago I bid on a '94 F250 7.3 IDI on eBay and ended up winning the thing. Had the truck shipped here and I've had it for a few days now and am totally in love. I've flipped a few cars in my day but this is the first vehicle I've owned that I plan on keeping until someone pries it out of my cold, dead, hands.
All that being said, it's a 25 year old truck so it has a few issues here and there and I'm terrified I'm going to try and fix something, get it wrong, and end up destroying my beautiful baby along the way. I put new door locks in it and changed all the engine fluids and filters, but that's as far as I've gotten. Right now my main concern is that my temp gauge isn't working and the ENGINE TEMP light is permanently on to the right of the steering column. I figure its just a bad sensor since the truck seems to be running fine and showing no signs of overheating, but it still makes me nervous every time I drive it because I hate having no idea whats going on under the hood.
I read on some other forums that there are 2 separate temp sensors in the engine, one that goes to the gauge and one that serves as an overtemp alarm. If the gauge reads 0 but the overtemp light is on does that mean both of them are probably bad? Are they both the same sensor? Does anyone know the part number?
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, I searched around for a while but I'm not too versed in the layout of the forum yet. Thanks in advance for any help.
- Rod
All that being said, it's a 25 year old truck so it has a few issues here and there and I'm terrified I'm going to try and fix something, get it wrong, and end up destroying my beautiful baby along the way. I put new door locks in it and changed all the engine fluids and filters, but that's as far as I've gotten. Right now my main concern is that my temp gauge isn't working and the ENGINE TEMP light is permanently on to the right of the steering column. I figure its just a bad sensor since the truck seems to be running fine and showing no signs of overheating, but it still makes me nervous every time I drive it because I hate having no idea whats going on under the hood.
I read on some other forums that there are 2 separate temp sensors in the engine, one that goes to the gauge and one that serves as an overtemp alarm. If the gauge reads 0 but the overtemp light is on does that mean both of them are probably bad? Are they both the same sensor? Does anyone know the part number?
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, I searched around for a while but I'm not too versed in the layout of the forum yet. Thanks in advance for any help.
- Rod
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