Are you driving it for awhile? Tranny fluid takes a little bit to heat up.

 

yea i drove it for about 10-20mins yesterday and it barley moved.

 

And you did hook up three wires to the back of the gauge right? There's a sender wire, a ground, and ignition. The sender itself should ground to the trans case with no problems.

You can test the sender too...pull it out of the tranny and make yourself a ground wire by touching a grounded wire to the threads on the sender. Take a bowl of water and heat it up in the microwave and put the tip of the sender in it. If that doesn't work then something is wrong with the gauge, sender, or wiring. If it does, then you're fine and the tranny just isn't heating up enough to register on the gauge.

 

Yes all wires are hooked up. I think im going to recheck the ignition wire. Were did you hook up your ignition wires?

 

I have a remote junction block that I installed under the dashboard. That's where I get switched ignition power for all my interior accessories.

Before I installed that I had it tapped into one of the ignition hot wires in the side panel fuse box. I don't remember which wire....just dug around in there with a multimeter until I found one that was ignition hot.

 

my tranny temp rarely gets over 100* in the winter...thats partly from the big trans cooler though

 

I dont have a trans cooler..want one though. I tried the hot water and i got nothing, but i dont think my ground wasnt that good...and i just lost patients for it. I think i need to redo the power wire...i need to get a juction block. Maybe this weekend ill play with it alittle more.

 

Like DozerDan said, my barely will make it to 125 in the winter. If you do some stop and go driving, through town, lots of stop lights, for about an hour, you should see it get to around 150.

Btw, when installed the sender grounds itself. Just make sure you have a 12+ volt swtiched ignition wire.

 

I was thinking when i put my sender in i put teflon tape on the threads wont thats cause it to not ground out?

 

no it wont i used liquid teflon when i put in hooked up my gas gauge..