additional coolant temperature guage

Hello , I like to add a additional coolant temperature guage and sensor with the warm weather and doing quite a bit of Laning up hills and the like .

My question is where is a good place to put the fitting tube for the sensor ? In the top hose before the head connection ?

Thanks in advance

Just bin the srandard inaccurate gauge and put the new gauge in its place. Then the sender for the new gauge in whatever the location is for the factory sender on whatever engine you have

flat said:

Just bin the srandard inaccurate gauge and put the new gauge in its place. Then the sender for the new gauge in whatever the location is for the factory sender on whatever engine you have

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it's a td5 and problem is most things go though a bcu or the ECU so not that simple and the dash guage is built in the dash board not individual clocks like a defender or a series . it's on a disco 2

Matt2e0fgx said:

Hello , I like to add a additional coolant temperature guage and sensor with the warm weather and doing quite a bit of Laning up hills and the like .

My question is where is a good place to put the fitting tube for the sensor ? In the top hose before the head connection ?

Thanks in advance

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I have a Kenlow fan fitted to one of my cars, the sensor is inside the top hose where it connects to the radiator, and still works perfectly at the temperature I set years ago. So I don't see why not a similar fitment for a dash mounted temp gauge.

Drill into the elbow and cut thread in it like i did

sierrafery said:

Drill into the elbow and cut thread in it like i did
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Nice and neat, I like that.

sierrafery said:

Drill into the elbow and cut thread in it like i did
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There's not a lot of meat on those housings, I seem to remember you did that several years ago so it's good it's held up and I may well end up doing the same. I bought the Gore housing and added the sender for the Durite guage, however the sender does not sit fully in the coolant flow and I found the reading was not accurate.

Mine is working that way without any leak from the beginning, no nead for much "meat" at that pressure just a bit of loctite, i also changed the sensor once cos as it was chinese the first one failed after about 2 years and no problems with the fitting though if you are scrupulous you can just drill and insert a rivnut there then it will be more meat

I could weld a peice of Ali bar onto the housing and drill and tap that so a bit more meat potentially