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Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
I'm hoping to keep the temperature idiot light in the fuel gauge working after I install my tach gauge cluster....
If there isn't another port, has anyone tried this some other way? |
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
There are a number of usable ports on both heads that can be used for sending units. If it is a pipe plug... you can use it.
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
Oh...sorry. I miss read your title. If not, I have seen Rad.hose slice thingies that the tuner crowd uses for extra temp senders. Look on Fleebay
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
I have a thermostat housing off a later 292 that has two outlets, on for the bypass and the other for whatever. Look around, they are out there.
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
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Anyway it has a ~5/8" tap on the top for an input. Sorry, I can't reconfigure the pic. They used to upload OK.
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
If this is the part I need, then Autozone has fixed me up (although it's gonna look kinda funky with the sender sticking straight up....)
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
I assume you realize the sender will be on the wrong side of the thermostat. I guess it doesn't really matter since the idiot light will be only a backup.
FWIW my old 250 had the sending unit screwed into the left side of the head. |
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
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The sending unit on my 250 is also screwed into the left side of the head (intake/exhaust side). |
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
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But does your upper radiator hose port [~2" dia.] angle to the rear? I think they're usually forward. Mine angles rear too. I use a flex hose rather than the OEM elbow-shaped formed hose. The 250 water pump is different, having one less outlet, but the thermostat housing is the same.
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
I swapped this onto my 250. Already drilled and tapped from GM. I don't know which I6 it came from.
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
That would be typical of a later (I don't know when they switched) 292. That is for the by-pass hose. On the earlier 292's, this was a much bigger hose, like 1.25" IIRC. The one I mentioned in a earlier post is like that, but it has 2 outlets on the drivers side, and one for the heater on the other side. I could take a picture of it tomorrow. I got it off a later square-body with a 292 not too long ago.
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Re: Is there more than 1 port on an L6 engine for a temp sending unit?
Some of trucks with 8V92s we work on have multiple sending units in one port. I'tll be a short straight pipe with a three port brass fitting.
We call it a tree and it isn't unusual to have temp, pressure, and a sending unit for a piece of test equipment out of the same hole in the block. |
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