mryoung4815

Can this be fixed? Picture attached

mryoung4815

The black broken wire to the right is the line from the water temp gauge

joe_padavano

If that's a mechanical temp gauge, no it cannot be fixed (at least not easily or cost-effectively. Mechanical temp gauges use an expanding fluid stored in the sensing bulb to operate the gauge. It's not a wire, it's a very small tube and once it breaks the fluid leaks out. Get a new gauge.

oldcutlass

If it's a wire, then all you need is a new sending unit and a terminal.

joe_padavano

Despite the electric sending unit in the intake, the "wire" in the photo above appears to be the tube for a mechanical gauge. Note the extremely thick plastic cover, which is typical of that used on mechanical gauges. Also, that would be VERY thick solid copper wire if it were, in fact, a wire. I've got $10 that says it isn't.