I went to visit my son yesterday and we got busy on the Caravelle. He bought some new stainless steel bumpers for the Caravelle and they are beautiful. Fitting was easy and very little adjustment was needed. The whole set cost him about $1200 which is about the price of chroming one only. You can see the quality in the photos and it is polished stainless. Can last a lifetime.
I was fiddling in the engine compartment to remove a gauge cluster that didn't look good. In the process, I was looking for the temp sensor and couldn't find it at first. Nowhere in the water. Then I traced the cable and it came out to an aluminium block bolted to the head at the same spot the temp light switch is normally mounted. What the previous owner has done is to make a little solid aluminium block, drill and tap it, and screwed the sensor that normally goes into the water somewhere into this block and mounted it on the head. It screws into a blind hole, with no open ends.
The gauge worked fine when we drove it up from Wellington but now I'm wondering what do you think the accuracy will be in doing it this way. Will it be accurate or if not will it read high or low?
I was fiddling in the engine compartment to remove a gauge cluster that didn't look good. In the process, I was looking for the temp sensor and couldn't find it at first. Nowhere in the water. Then I traced the cable and it came out to an aluminium block bolted to the head at the same spot the temp light switch is normally mounted. What the previous owner has done is to make a little solid aluminium block, drill and tap it, and screwed the sensor that normally goes into the water somewhere into this block and mounted it on the head. It screws into a blind hole, with no open ends.
The gauge worked fine when we drove it up from Wellington but now I'm wondering what do you think the accuracy will be in doing it this way. Will it be accurate or if not will it read high or low?