How to install autometer water temp gauge AND keep stock one?

[tmoss]

To drill the stock thermostat housing, ude a 9/16" drill bit and a 3/8" NPT tap. Works great and is directly in the coolant flow path once the t-stat opens.

 

[Guero]

Guero, I thought I mentioned that in one of the PM's?

That was the reason I was saying to relocate the stocker (you kept asking about the need for a waterneck, etc. Then said you knew you had a dead port in your lower intake).

yeah, but i never knew i had to put my stock one in the back and the auto meter were the stock one goes. i thought you bought a new water neck to put in the after market one, and not relocate the stock one there. oh well. my mistake.

 

[tmoss]

Dont break it.

The #1 cause of cracked intakes I see are people putting too many lb-ft on the sensors or the coolant tube in the intake. Put some good pipe dope (or rtv) on the threads and just snug them up good, 5 lb-ft or so....

 

[SeventyMach1]

I don't understand what you mean Guero.


The proper way to do it, IMO, is to get a water neck that has a hole (for sensor). Put the stock sender in the water neck.

Put the new sender (for new gauge) where the stock sender was.

I think this is what JT was saying as well.

 

[Guero]

i plugged a couple of holes on the lower intake. So i just unplugged one and put in the after market gauge to it. I didn't know that your suppose to take out the stock sending unit and put the after market one there and the stock was suppose to go on the one i unplugged.

plus i had just bought a new gasket and thermostat. plus my upper intake was of, so it was alot easier to unplug one, instead of going to buy a new water neck.