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Old Apr 22, 2005 | 10:31 AM
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Hey guys I managed to break off my coolant temp sensor and I went and got a new one from autozone, for whatever reason my old one had one little prong and the new one had two so I could not get my weather pack connector to go in. I went to napa and they had the same two prong design, but theirs came with a new weatherpack, but the problem is napa's weatherpack has a black a yellow wire coming off it and my old one had only one green wire. I traced the green wire back, and it's a single wire all the way back to were it mixes with the other wires. I'm really confused here shoould i splice the yellow and black wires into the green one? Or should I go try looking somewhere else.

Also when I was at autozone I had the guy look up other years 96,98, do you think for whatever reason i might have an older model year coolant temp sensor?

Thanks for the help!!!!!!
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Old Apr 22, 2005 | 10:38 AM
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simple solution, go to a dealer and get the gm part..
autozone doesn't know ****!
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Old Apr 22, 2005 | 10:48 AM
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Mystic97z simple solution, go to a dealer and get the gm part..
autozone doesn't know ****!


Lol, yea i guess I should just do that, my girlfriend even works at the dealer, it's just so far away though
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Old Apr 23, 2005 | 04:30 PM
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Is it the sensor in the head or water pump? The sensor in the head has one prong and goes to the gauge and the waterpump sensor has two prongs and goes to the pcm.
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Old Apr 24, 2005 | 02:15 PM
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i broke my damn connector off my harness..and the wire is too short to fix....dammit!
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Old Apr 24, 2005 | 04:06 PM
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you have a 97 right?... they probably gave you 96 and below sensor... because the 97 is different.. believe me i know... i swaped a 97 6 speed SS into my 94 formula.. and i had a LOT of extra wires and have to do everything all over again... but yeah.. go to dealer.
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Old Apr 24, 2005 | 11:42 PM
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SHould be less than $20 if they give you a discount
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