Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Good news: Oil temperature failure

[jashburne (jashburne]

I think you are right. Gauges don’t coincidentally fail when something else is 
fixed.   “Coincidences” are rare and your diagnosis is probably exactly right. 

Fingers crossed when you fire it up. 

John

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> On Sep 30, 2018, at 7:14 PM, Michel Savard <mysavard [at] videotron.ca> wrote:
> 
> Found the problem.
> Got under the car an hour ago. Boy, is it dirty down there. So, I’m on my 
> back with the 308 18 inches above ground, just left-rear wheel up.
> Look and look and look. Finally found a brown wire, but I had touched it 
> twice before, but not hard. The black cap that’s attached to it was well in 
> place around the sender unit. The third time, I decided to separate it from 
> the sender unit. I saw clearly the female connector wasn’t attached. The 
> brown wire had no play at all. It was attached with a tie-wrap and held in 
> place on 2 different places with some sort of bending metal thing and I guess 
> moving the engine up to replace the 4 supports was enough to disconnect the 
> whole thing.
> I  haven’t started the engine, just couldn’t do it tonight. But, I’m sure 
> that was the problem.
> 
> Thanks to all for the ‘support’.
> 
> Michael Savard (1981 308 GTSi)
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