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I have a 85 f150 and there is a sensor on the water outlet. It screws into the pipe that the heater hose goes to. I was told this is the coolant temp sensor but the pipe is cracked and it has been discontinued from the dealership. I was going to piece together a make shift pipe but wanted to know if I leave the sensor off if it will affect anything. I have a new water outlet anf it has a spot where I can install an aftermarket temp sensor whick I plan on doing. Would this mess anything up? Im at a stand still right now.
Ford put the temp sensor at the rear of the block, just below the head. I have had mine in both locations. When in the block, the temp gauge shows the engine temp that of the thermostat, and you can see each time it opens until the whole system gets up to temp.
When it is located in the thermostat housing, you are picking up the temp of the coolant exiting the engine, and the gauge will show about 20* hotter than what the block is running. I like to know the temp of the engine, not the throw off temp.
A nice, inexpensive temp gauge is the Equuis brand, sold at O'reilley's.
SunPro brand is crap. If you use an electric gauge, don't use teflon or sealer on the threads of the sending unit/fittings. You must get a ground to the block for it to work correctly.
I have a 85 f150 and there is a sensor on the water outlet. It screws into the pipe that the heater hose goes to.
I was told this is the coolant temp sensor but the pipe is cracked and it has been discontinued from the dealership. Whoever told you that...was FOS!
E5TZ-18599-C .. Hot Water Elbow / Available from Ford / Connects to t/stat housing, a heater hose connects to this elbow, has a female port for a sensor to thread into.
[quote=NumberDummy;10458430]E5TZ-18599-C .. Hot Water Elbow / Available from Ford / Connects to t/stat housing, a heater hose connects to this elbow, has a female port for a sensor to thread into.
$41 picking it up tomorrow from beaman. Thanks for the help. Hope to have the truck back up and running this weekend.
I am also in need of the legendary E5TZ-18599-C, and having trouble finding one. I guess Ford stopped making it, none of the dealers in California seem to have one, and eBay is fresh out.
If anyone has one, or ideas where I might find one, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks!
I am also in need of the legendary E5TZ-18599-C, and having trouble finding one. I guess Ford stopped making it, none of the dealers in California seem to have one, and eBay is fresh out.
If anyone has one, or ideas where I might find one, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks!
What part is broken got a picture of it?
Dave ----
picture below. I was in the middle of a Heater core bypass that turned into flushing the Mississippi River out of my radiator and block. Got into the thermostat while I was at it and realized my thermostat housing and heater hose outlet was heavily corroded; especially the parts that the radiator hose and heater hose connect too.
After realizing I couldn’t find it the parts I just reinstalled them so I could finish the coolant flush. It’s something I want to replace soon though as I’ll be replacing the water pump. It’s shot. Thanks Dave! Heater hose elbow outlet and thermostat housing
Ok so it is just the part the sensor is in and the hose on and I take it the hose part has rusted and is leaking?
Well junk yard as Ford dose not have it and I dont think the parts stores have that part. They do have the stat housing but you have to watch as the hole that fitting screws into is too small on some like from Auto Zone, O'Reilly's had the right one.
Here is what I would look into doing. You can get hose nipples with threads on one end. I would see about cutting the rusted hose off that fitting and see about threading the fitting for the hose nipple.
Only thing to watch out for is how far the nipple threads in that it dose not hit the sensor when the nipple is installed.
If a threaded nipple dose not pan out I would look into using copper fittings. Again cut the rusted part off, thread the fitting to take the copper thread to solder and built it up to take a heater hose.
Paint the copper black or silver and no one will know.
Report back on the fix so others will know what works.
Dave ----
from the dealership.
