Temp sending unit for '68
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Temp sending unit for '68



 The part they are trying to sell you is probably correct.  The one you are
describing on your car is the one which operates the idiot light/gauge
sentry device.  The sender which operates the gauge is too the left of the
two terminal device, and has only one terminal, and it is much smaller.
Look again, I think you'll find it.

Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McDonald" <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:22 PM
Subject: IML: Temp sending unit for '68


> I am having a devil of a time finding a new coolant sending unit for my
> '68.  I hope I am looking at the right part.  If you are facing the
> engine, it is located about 2" to the left of the thermostat, between 2
> heater hoses.  It looks almost like the bottom of a lightbulb with a
> hexagonal collar on it.  Above the collar is a small cylinder with 2
> blade connectors set at right angles to each other.  The dimension of
> the hex collar is 15/16".
>
> I have gone to 4 different parts stores here and they either don't even
> have a number for this part, or what they do have is way too small.  Pep
> boys had it-- according to their computer-- but the part is about 1/3
> the size of the thing on my car.  Is what I am looking at a housing?  In
> other words, if I take it apart will I find the sensor inside this
> thing?  I am pretty sure I am looking at the right thing, because when I
> disconnect it my gauge goes dead.
>
> I am trying to replace this because my gauge never gets up to normal.  I
> tested the temp of the antifreeze in the radiator and it got up to about
> 150 degrees after about 20 min. idling in my drive.  That would seem to
> be close to normal temp (?), but the gauge never moved above about 1/4
> of the way over toward the center.
>
> I do not think the thermostat is the problem, because when I start the
> engine cold and look in the radiator I do not see instant circulation of
> antifreeze, as you would expect with a thermostat that was stuck open.
> So I thought maybe the sending unit was bad . . .
>
> But I cannot locate a sending unit.  Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
>
>


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