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Old Jan 25, 2010 | 01:05 PM
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so i bought a radiator for an auto car and it doesnt have a place for the coolant sensor like my old radiator did, where does it go?
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Old Jan 25, 2010 | 01:10 PM
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it has the two ports for the trans cooler but no place to put the sensor
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it could be the difference in years, my car is a 99 TA and the radiator is from an 02
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i think you got the wrong radiator. All of them have a place for the coolent level sensor from 93-02, i owned a 94 Z28 that had it also my 99 TA and 00 WS6 both had it.

Maybe a manufacture flaw, go to another parts to to verify
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i think you got the wrong radiator. All of them have a place for the coolent level sensor from 93-02, i owned a 94 Z28 that had it also my 99 TA and 00 WS6 both had it.

Maybe a manufacture flaw, go to another parts to to verify
actually the coolant level sensor is the one im talkin about, the 99 radiators have a port, the 02's dont
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