coolant temperature sensor broke off into head! Need advice!
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coolant temperature sensor broke off into head! Need advice!
Ls1howto torque specs must be wrong, it said 15ftibs, I set the torque wrench to that it never clicked and now its broke off into my head, I'm just going to buy a new coolant sensor and swap it to the passanger side head, but do you think the broke sensor will be a good enough seal and won't leak? Man this sucks.
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That's the bad part lol, iv been a technician for a year and even I am not sure how I'm going to go about fixing this. I thought maybe some one else had done this already. Im just going to leave it there put a new sensor in the passanger head, solder some wire to it, and find the pin in the pcm and re pin it there. Man this sucks.
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you could start the motor up and let it get a little hot then take a chisel or something and try to move the brass piece out. aluminum expands a lot faster than the brass i believe. just be careful.
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If you're afraid to do it, pull the head and take it to a machine shop. They can get it out no problem. Whenever I put those back in, I just add a little pipe thread putty to the threads and tighten it just snug by hand.
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I'm not pulling the head! No way lol. Just got done putting arp head studs in lol I don't feel like doing that all over again. I'm just going to leave it and move it to the passanger head. I might try taking a chissel and seeing if I can get a bite on it and back it out with a hammer by hitting down. If that works il be so happy, but iv already cut the connector off and soldered some wire to it. I can always just cut it back though and put it back where it was if that happens to work.