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timmsy19

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timmsy19

Hi all

 

anyone know whats involved to change my phase2 header tank to a phase1 type

 

im thinking of getting a polished bailey header tank and they dont do one for a phase2

 

any ideas welcome

 

thanks

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welshpug

they use a different coolant level sender, but all the hoses are the same AFAIK.

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GTI6BOY

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timmsy19

so im going to need the level send from a phase1 and then just the header tank.

 

anyone knwo the part number of the level sender?

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jackherer
so im going to need the level send from a phase1 and then just the header tank.

 

anyone knwo the part number of the level sender?

 

Apparently its not that simple, the late sender wont work with the dash of an earlier car and vice versa.

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timmsy19

ah right. why would that be. i thought the dash was the same on the phase1/1.5 and the 2?

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jackherer

Its not the clocks themselves as they are interchangeable, it must be a difference in the wiring loom somewhere. I think it was Graham (Pugtorque) that posted about this originally, I hadn't even got past the 'it doesn't work' stage myself when I just swapped back to the old style header tank :)

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welshpug

I can't find any 205 wiring diagram that shows it, but the 309 and 405 diagrams show a "coolant level indicator unit" as well as the sender, 2 wires to the sender, 1 to the dash, 1 to earth and a power from the fusebox.

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pug_ham

The phase 2 black header tanks have a three pin level sender where the earlier phase 1's have just a two pin sender.

 

A friends car has a phase 1 type fitted where it should have a phase 2, I tried the wires in various different orders to see if I could get the light working with the earlier sender on a later car but after blowing my stock of 10A fuses gave up.

 

Looking at what Merion has posted above it shouldn't be that difficult to work out but I couldn't get it to work. :lol:

 

Looking at the Haynes wiring diagram for the phase 1 sender its just a switch that makes an earth to put the light on from the dash so I would've thought that you'd just need to use the wire from the dash & the earth to get it working.

 

Graham.

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