wesinls
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Or did i just answer my own question - use the other side?.
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LS water pump
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You just answered your own question. Autometer sells the adapter for the LS heads for the gauge.
Just put a brass bushing in one of the threaded heater outlet holes in the water pump and put a sensor there, it's close enough to give you reasonably accurate temps. I've compared what my Terminator reads the coolant temp at, sensor is in the head, vs what my gauge says, sensor is in the water pump hole, and they are always very close. We aren't sending a spacecraft to Mars we're just duning, it's close enough.
The reason why I don't use the other blank hole in the opposite cylinder head for a gauge coolant temp sensor? Gauge temp sensors are almost always a standard sized pipe thread, the hole in the head is a metric hole and uses a copper washer. The adapters you can buy are long and put the sensor way out of the flow of coolant so using the heater outlet hole in the water pump just makes more sense.
The reason why I don't use the other blank hole in the opposite cylinder head for a gauge coolant temp sensor? Gauge temp sensors are almost always a standard sized pipe thread, the hole in the head is a metric hole and uses a copper washer. The adapters you can buy are long and put the sensor way out of the flow of coolant so using the heater outlet hole in the water pump just makes more sense.
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