Reply to "Water temp sensor"

I have asked several experts about the water temperature gauge sensor mis match. From everything that I have heard, Veglia never made a matching sending unit for their water temperature gauge or oil pressure gauge. When De Tomaso was building the Pantera, it was less expensive to just put a Ford sending unit in, which tended to cause the water temperature gauge to read high. Ford later had a service update, which is where the in line resister came from. The Veglia oil pressure gauge sending unit is also a mis match, but on my car the gauge read low. There is a company in New Mexico that can remove the water temperature and oil pressure gauge internals and replace them with Stewart Warner internals. They also provide the matching Stewart Warner sending units. I have seen one car that it has been done on and the gauges look totally original and work perfectly.