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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Does this gauge fit the stock sender

Posted by: jsayre914 Aug 26 2012, 03:42 PM

It dosent say that it comes with the sender?

Will this work on a stock 1973 2.0 in place of the original gauge.

Same wires? Could it be plug and play?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/VDO-310012/?rtype=10

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Posted by: Black22 Aug 26 2012, 03:54 PM

I'm not sure what is considered a stock sensor, but I do know that there are different valued senders out there. A 200C sender will read differently than a 150C sender.

Google a sender that is for use with that particular gauge.

Go to eGauges.com

Pick that VDO gauge and it will have a link to all the senders that work with it. For the Taco plate it looks like p/n 323-055. Which is a 150C/300F value sender. The taco plate is a 14mm thread IIRC.

Verify first though.

Posted by: Dave_Darling Aug 26 2012, 09:02 PM

It should work, as in "give you a reading".

It will probably read wrong, though. Depends on the resistance range that the gauge expects and the resistance that your sender gives you. They might match, but there's a good chance they won't.

--DD

Posted by: gothspeed Aug 27 2012, 02:55 PM

When I bought one of those VDO oil temp gauges and its matching sender ........ the sender that was already in the taco plate ..... was exactly the same part # as the one I bought ........ so I swapped them just in case the old one was tired.