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Finished installing my engine temperature sensor today. I used this gauge pod for the install, and this gauge.
I took a peice of flat stock aluminium and bent it so that I could bolt it to the stock gauge pod on one end, and mount the gauge pod on the other side.
I spliced into the coolant hose running to the oil cooler. This line isn't thermostatically controller, so it will give me a good reading even with the thermostat closed. Here's a view of the splice looking in through the nose of the sled:
Bleeding the coolant was much easier than I thought, although I did have to drill a hole so that I could get a socket on the bleed screw:
I put a 2X10 under both skis and used a floor jack to get the front of the sled about two and a half feet into the air. After that I loosened the bleed screw and started dumping coolant in. I was actually able to get coolant to run out the bleed screw by just dumping coolant in, so apparently I had the front high enough.
I then put the hood on, ran it for about 30 seconds, took the hood off, let off a tiny amount of air through the bleed screw, and then repeated this about 3 times. The third time I did this no air came out the bleed screw. I then let it run until the thermostat opened, let the coolers get warm, and then bled again. No air came out that last time either.
Overall the install was pretty easy, although pretty time consuming.
I took a peice of flat stock aluminium and bent it so that I could bolt it to the stock gauge pod on one end, and mount the gauge pod on the other side.
I spliced into the coolant hose running to the oil cooler. This line isn't thermostatically controller, so it will give me a good reading even with the thermostat closed. Here's a view of the splice looking in through the nose of the sled:
Bleeding the coolant was much easier than I thought, although I did have to drill a hole so that I could get a socket on the bleed screw:
I put a 2X10 under both skis and used a floor jack to get the front of the sled about two and a half feet into the air. After that I loosened the bleed screw and started dumping coolant in. I was actually able to get coolant to run out the bleed screw by just dumping coolant in, so apparently I had the front high enough.
I then put the hood on, ran it for about 30 seconds, took the hood off, let off a tiny amount of air through the bleed screw, and then repeated this about 3 times. The third time I did this no air came out the bleed screw. I then let it run until the thermostat opened, let the coolers get warm, and then bled again. No air came out that last time either.
Overall the install was pretty easy, although pretty time consuming.
