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Coolant temp guage


Hollywood

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I'll have to get some pictures this weekend of what I did. 

I used a glowshift GS-TCD06 gauge along with mounting bracket GS-U1UDB. The raditor hose T I used is in the thread I provide purchased on Amazon. I did bore the center of the T adaptor some because I didn't want to restrict the coolant flow. I also drilled and tapped the adaptor to accept  a  1/8" NPT to 1/4" NPT reducer to keep the temperature sensor from filling up the inside of the adaptor. 

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Here are the pictures as promised. The fuse block is well a fuse block connected to the battery, and the terminal strip is connected to switched power. The picture of the adaptor shows how I drilled tapped to a larger NPT thread to raise the sensor out of the direct coolant flow. I contacted Glow gauge tech support and they said it was perfect.

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