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Old May 21, 2007 | 04:03 PM
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Does anyone know what the gauges on an lt1 mean, speficically the ones where the rpms are. There is a little red box with an arrow inside and what seems to be water. Its been turning on but only when the car is warmed up. Does anyone know what it means?
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Old May 21, 2007 | 04:08 PM
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look it up in the manual
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Old May 21, 2007 | 04:15 PM
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I lost the manual, otherwise I would have looked already.
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Old May 21, 2007 | 04:19 PM
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probably low coolant..mine turned on once and then later turned off..common with these cars
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Old May 21, 2007 | 04:23 PM
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i just unplugged my low coolant sensor... bastard never bothered me again
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Old May 21, 2007 | 04:24 PM
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I figured thats what it was, Im waiting for the car to cool down so I can go check the level.
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Old May 21, 2007 | 06:57 PM
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Its your coolant temperature sensor, it is either bad- like mine, or you are running low on coolant. One way to find out is to get a flush, and re-fill, if it stays on, your temp sensor is bad.
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Old May 21, 2007 | 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by LT1dude
Its your coolant temperature sensor, it is either bad- like mine, or you are running low on coolant. One way to find out is to get a flush, and re-fill, if it stays on, your temp sensor is bad.
That's another sensor entirely.

Besides that, I have no idea why you think that you can find out if the temp sensor is off by flushing the coolant.
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