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Old May 20, 2011 | 08:33 AM
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Strange gauge problem

I have a strange issue going on with one of my gauges. I have three on my pillar, prosport volts, oil preassure, boost. My boost gauge used to work fine and now it stays pegged at vac max. I thought maybe vac line. Boost works when I blow into tube with car in accessort but as soon as car starts it pegs. Now I even disconnected the sending unit totally and the gauge only pegs when car starts, but with key in acc it stays at 0. I checked the wiring and it's all hooked up same way it always has when it worked perfectly.*
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Old Jun 2, 2011 | 11:29 AM
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Strangely today my volt gauge started doing same thing: it works correctly when key is in accessory and gauges don't work when engine started. They allused to work fine.
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Old Jun 2, 2011 | 01:09 PM
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I am currently running a prosport boost gauge and this happened to me about 4 months back, i just had to change the boost sender and it fixed the problem right away, i think i paid like $20 for a new one from prosport
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Old Jun 2, 2011 | 01:20 PM
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im starting to doubt prosport, my oil pressure gauge stopped working about a year ago now, i believe its the sender but have yet to check it
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Old Jun 4, 2011 | 03:50 PM
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None of my prosport gauges work correctly when car is running, but work fine when in accessory mode. How can that be? They used to work fine. I didn't install them previous owner did.
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Old Jun 4, 2011 | 03:53 PM
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ground them all to the same place
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Old Jun 4, 2011 | 03:56 PM
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maybe its because you bought cheap gauges....buy some nice Stri's or Defi's or quality autometers. not the ****ty pro comp nascar gauges
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Old Jun 4, 2011 | 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by brenner
ground them all to the same place
They already are, I just regrounded them thinking that was the issue but no luck
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