Oil Temp gauge install question
Oil Temp gauge install question
Bummer… The search feature is down again and I need some info from a previous post.
In the process of getting ready to install an oil temp gauge I moved my amp meter over to the other side of the fairing just below the fuel gauge. The original plug for the amp gauge is a 2 wire (hot & ground) and the plug for the air temp gauge is a 3 wire (hot & 2 ground) . I pulled out the manual and found that the third wire for the air gauge runs down to a temp sensor and is labeled a ground. My question is do I leave this or do I need to attach it to another ground somewhere under the fairing??? [sm=helpout.gif]
In the process of getting ready to install an oil temp gauge I moved my amp meter over to the other side of the fairing just below the fuel gauge. The original plug for the amp gauge is a 2 wire (hot & ground) and the plug for the air temp gauge is a 3 wire (hot & 2 ground) . I pulled out the manual and found that the third wire for the air gauge runs down to a temp sensor and is labeled a ground. My question is do I leave this or do I need to attach it to another ground somewhere under the fairing??? [sm=helpout.gif]
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RE: Oil Temp gauge install question
Why not simply remove the wire from the connector??? It's easy to do and there's enough wire inside the fairing without unused wire and a sensor being there. I moved my volt meter when I installed the oil temp gauge, but my bike didn't have an air temp gauge (police model EG). Given how the volt meter works (only two of the spade terminals are used), it would be safe to simply zip tie the wire and sensor if you don't want to remove the wire from the connector.
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RE: Oil Temp gauge install question
ORIGINAL: No Tyme
Bummer… The search feature is down again and I need some info from a previous post.
In the process of getting ready to install an oil temp gauge I moved my amp meter over to the other side of the fairing just below the fuel gauge. The original plug for the amp gauge is a 2 wire (hot & ground) and the plug for the air temp gauge is a 3 wire (hot & 2 ground) . I pulled out the manual and found that the third wire for the air gauge runs down to a temp sensor and is labeled a ground. My question is do I leave this or do I need to attach it to another ground somewhere under the fairing??? [sm=helpout.gif]
Bummer… The search feature is down again and I need some info from a previous post.
In the process of getting ready to install an oil temp gauge I moved my amp meter over to the other side of the fairing just below the fuel gauge. The original plug for the amp gauge is a 2 wire (hot & ground) and the plug for the air temp gauge is a 3 wire (hot & 2 ground) . I pulled out the manual and found that the third wire for the air gauge runs down to a temp sensor and is labeled a ground. My question is do I leave this or do I need to attach it to another ground somewhere under the fairing??? [sm=helpout.gif]
It's a very easy install, the hardest part being access to one of the nuts for the gauge (forget which one) and running the sender wire under the tank. Make two small (6-12") single-wire harnesses using a male blade connector on one end and a ring connector on the other. The kit does not contain any blade connectors. Unplug the harness from the air gauge and plug the blade end of one into the slot in the harness corresponding to the orange wire (12V), the other end to the POS connector on the oil-temp gauge. For the other wire, connect NEG and the black wire. Run the yellow sender wire under the tank (or up the downtube if you can tolerate exposing the wire) and connect it to SIG on the gauge with a ring connector. The ground wire from the sender does not need to be routed under the tank. Just ground it anywhere, and a good place is the frame screw (already with one or more ground wires connected) in the cubby hole forward of the battery.
That's about it. If you decide to install the sender in the pan, the adapter is a 1/8" MNPT - 3/8" FNPT, obtainable from Napa.
RE: Oil Temp gauge install question
That was my thought because the volt gauge is powered by the plug that used to power the air temp gauge. Since I am no longer using the air temp sensor Iwasn't sureif I could removeit or if I had to ground it... But it would seem if I ground it there would be power going to the sensor all of the time. That isn't needed... Thanks!
RE: Oil Temp gauge install question
I was leaning towards putting the temp sensor in the pan due mostly from what I have read on this forum. I do remember some discussion on the adapter size differed from earlier models and I think it did change right around 06 and that is the year I have.
Thanks also for the instructions as I did copy and paste only a little of the info I did get off the search I pulled here last weekend. I just wasn’t sure what to do with that left over wire and didn’t want to short anything out since I am still under warrantee. That mess of wires under the fairing would look awful if it was melted. [sm=thanx.gif]
Thanks also for the instructions as I did copy and paste only a little of the info I did get off the search I pulled here last weekend. I just wasn’t sure what to do with that left over wire and didn’t want to short anything out since I am still under warrantee. That mess of wires under the fairing would look awful if it was melted. [sm=thanx.gif]
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RE: Oil Temp gauge install question
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RE: Oil Temp gauge install question
ORIGINAL: Hamps
75324-05 silver
75320-05 spun aluminum
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$139.95
07-later also needs 26133-07
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75320-05 spun aluminum
75265-04 black
$139.95
07-later also needs 26133-07
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RE: Oil Temp Sender install question
Oil Temp Sender revisited:
Been lurking around for a while, thanks for all the good "how to's".
I need to do the oil temp ga. install before I switch out some other parts.
I'llgo with the OIL PAN sender install- Good idea...
My question is this, for an '07 Ultra Classic w/o adapter kit & no oil cooler, would the oil pressure sender hole locale
be another acceptable install point for the temp sender ? i.e.Add a Tee to acceptboth sending units. (Using an infared thermometer,I got a reading of 290 degrees @ the oemoil pressure sensor where it threaded into the case housing. What would be the down side of doing it this way ?
rea
Been lurking around for a while, thanks for all the good "how to's".
I need to do the oil temp ga. install before I switch out some other parts.
I'llgo with the OIL PAN sender install- Good idea...
My question is this, for an '07 Ultra Classic w/o adapter kit & no oil cooler, would the oil pressure sender hole locale
be another acceptable install point for the temp sender ? i.e.Add a Tee to acceptboth sending units. (Using an infared thermometer,I got a reading of 290 degrees @ the oemoil pressure sensor where it threaded into the case housing. What would be the down side of doing it this way ?
rea