Toyota Trucks: Truck gauge swap woes

Alright, I have swapped my gauges and gotten everything working in my 85
xcab/4wd truck. Swapped in the full gauge setup with speedo, tach,
voltmeter, etc. I knew about the oil pressure switch situation so until I
had the correct sending unit, I left the wire unplugged. I purchased the oil
pressure sending unit from Napa. The new sending unit has the nub on the end
where the wire slides on, but it has a small tab on the side as well where
something else should attach. I get nothing when hooking up the wire to
either of these connectors on the sending unit. Is there another wire that
should go to the extra connector? Or what gives? Is my oil pressure gauge
bad? I would think that an oil pressure sending unit would need some sort of
power as it is not mechanical so should there be a power lead going to the
extra connector?

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:37:43 GMT, "jake" <com> wrote:
 

Check the paperwork with the sending unit. It might be a
ground-wire connection, for cars where the switch doesn't ground
through the threads properly.

If it's another insulated terminal, some cars have a dual sender
that has both a gauge sender and an idiot-light switch built in - the
advantage being the idiot light means "Hey, Dummy! Look at the
gauges! You have a problem!" ;-P

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