OK! Here's what you need to put the electric temp sensor probe from the Auto meter water temp gauge in your intercooler line. These parts were found at a NAPA. The tee is brass 3/4". The two 5/8" nipples are for a chevy intake manifold. A fitting with the temp gauge will screw right into the other opening. Don't forget the aggie pukey on the threads and pipe fittings but not on the little insert with the temp probe that goes in after you put the big fitting in and two 1" stainless hose clamps and string the wire.

noelvm

 

Let us know as soon as you get it installed and what kind of temps the water runs at.

Mike

 

Hey Noel--two words, Teflon tape.

 

Actually you really don't want to use teflon tape. What usually happens is that people put on too many wraps and too close to the end of the fitting. When you screw the fitting in, the tape extrudes off the end of the fitting and gets in your system. In this case the inter-cooler water. It will then float around until it finds something to plug up, like the inter-cooler or the water pump. Better is too use one of the thread locking products that has teflon added. This will save you much grief. Teflon tape really only reduces the friction involved in putting the fittings together. The actual sealing takes place when the tops of the threads get crushed as you wrench the fittings together. This is why it is difficult to get pipe threads to seal after they have been taken apart and reused. Also why, when you do reuse them, you have to wrench them even tighter the next time to keep the joint from leaking.

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Mike
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Noel,
What guage did you find that has the proper range? Most guages I've seen start @ 100 degrees. I think 50 to 250 would be about right.
I'm getting the airfuel guage with Jim (Fordsales)and I'd like to match it. Phantom.

Tim

 

Will using parts intended for a steeenking Chevy cause problems?

 

I haven't found a 50 degree start gauge yet and am using the 100 degree. If post I have read are accurate, I may see little or no movement of gauge, but thought I'd try it as this is all an experiment up to now anyway.
noelvm

 

Hey Noel, This is not a Phantom gage, but at least it measures below 100F

 

The SPA digital gauges measure 0-300 deg... but they are EXPENSIVE!
http://www.spatechnique.com/instruments.html

 

Wellllll, put in the Phantom gauge that starts at 100. Went out and flogged it good. Gauge never moved. Need one with lower setting. You'd love my temp mount. I duct taped it to the carpet. Looks great.
noelvm

 

noel, do you have pics on this install?

thanks again for all your help
carl

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JMI.....You are correct when you say people use too much teflon tape on pipe threads. Three and one half wraps on any size pipe threads will provide the friction reduction (Like that) to insure proper sealing of pipe fitting. Of course that if the threads have the proper pitch and depth. So I stand by my previous statment, teflon tape. 22 yrs as a pipefitter/weldor. Later from the Gator

 

Installation under the hood is really pretty easy. You want the lower go to line not the top line to the box. I was gonna cut it but decided if this whole experiment turned into a bust, I didn't want to have to buy a new intercooler line. So I bought 6" of 5/8" heater hose and another clamp and just pulled the factory hose off and put the joint followed by the extra piece of hose. The fitting with the sender unit in it needs to be pointed down so an air pocket will not form at the probe. Note that I used Aggie Pukie which has the yankee name of non-hardening Permatex. It is a requirement when using this product that you get it all over both hands. It only, I repeat only, comes off with gasoline.

Easyiest place to fish wire thru firewall is on drivers side there is a diaphram with a single line going in. Punch hole in diaphram. Power for gauge grabed from mini fuze tap on radio fuze. Took longer to get electric right than all the rest. There are two types of mine fuze taps and you need the smallest, 1/8 I think and a female spade connector to attach to it.
Of course as we have pods for the gauges coming I used the tempory Aggie Mount. Why is it called an Aggie mount? Because you use DUCK TAPE!!!!Right Duck?

I am ordering the 60 degree AutoMeter water temp gauge Monday which is a 2 5/8 gauge not 2 1/16 and will not fit in the gauge pod. Its part number is 5469. We'll see what it does. I did add a bottle of water wetter. Truck ran new best time of 8.59. Cool front helped also.
noelvm


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