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1995 temperature sensor housing

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Wondering if anyone has repaired a temperature sensor housing?Had a leaking thermostat gasket and snapped a bolt.unplugged temp sensor and tried to pull off rubber hose so I could heat the broken bolt.Sure enough the nipple broke off.Not to mention I was working on it outside with a temp around 15 degrees.Not a productive day.It doesn't look easy to get out because of the steel pipe hooked to it.I waswondering if I could grind off the remaining nipple and thread in a new fitting?Thanks in advance

A temporary fix with a rubber vacuum cap and hose clamp, IF there is enough metal to clamp it to.

I had same problem and just capped it.

I know that entire assembly is available through Dorman.

Also, that lower piece is a union and you can unboltit directly from the intake manifold. Though it will take some persuasion.

thanks for the advice.I don't think there is enough left to cap it off.Also you said that is an union,do you just cut the metal line?I believe the broken one went to the throttle body,do u know what purpose it serves?

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Originally Posted by Richard Robbins (Post 18412101)

Also you said that is an union,do you just cut the metal line?

Unscrew it if you can get it apart.

Finished product

Well I answered my own question, you cannot braze a nipple in. I wrapped the sending unit with a wet rag because it was welded in and I couldn’t take it out. As I was brazing I heard a pop. When I was done the union fell apart. Apparently there is some type of plastic clip that holds it together.Also the wet rag didn’t help either.So.. this is what I settled for as I couldn’t find the part online and it is only my plow truck and only use it in my yard. I welded the hose barb into the threaded fitting and put that back in the manifold.I happened to have a junk mountaineer in the yard and it had the perfect hose I needed to reconnect to the heater hose.I spliced in a copper tee and soldered in a fitting to feed the line to the throttle body. Seems to work fine except I no longer have the sensor but my temp gauge seems to be reading so I am not sure what that was for.Oh and the broken stud I finally got out after welding 5 nuts and snapping 4 off before the stud finally came out. Hopefully this might save someone half the grief I went through.But finally I won.

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The temp sensor with two wires is for the computer. My suggestion would be to buy/ procure a replacement for the “tree” that broke so you can reinstall the sensor. The sending unit that runs the gauge is completely separate and will not send any information to the PCM.

Is it that important for a plow truck?The body is rough and if I get another year out of it I will be happy

That temp sensor is what the EFI uses to make a majority of it's calculations of how to supply fuel.

Many hair-pulling issues with trucks not running at all seem to get traced back to this sensor.

Missing it would pretty sure cause pig-rich washing down cylinders & much carbon fouling, especially in the cold.

Thank you for explaining that for me, I will try to squeeze it in somehow