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> Once again, time to dip into the pool of net.wisdom
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> I have tried and tried to get the temperature sender out of the lower
>thermostat
> housing.
**** TeriAnn, you need my super-deluxe patented TR Temperature sender
remover!
( !!! )
Just a second... it's gotta be around here someplace ( sounds of
jerry rooting through his desk )... Nope. Must be out in the
garage or something.
Anyway, here's how it works:
1) I measured the flat-to-flat distance of the sender nut.
2) I got a brand-new 6-point socket matching that flat-to-flat
distance.
3) I welded a sparkplug wrench to the drive end of the big socket.
4) I took a die grinder and ground a slot up the side of both
sockets. The slot was wide enough to pass the bourdon tube, and
went from the bottom edge of the big socket almost up to the
drive end of the sparkplug wrench.
5) Then I placed the tool over the sender nut. The bourdon tube
exited out the side, through the slot. Just like the sparkplug
wire comes out the side of that plastic tower they have on a
Colortune. I put the thermostat housing in a vise, applied my
impact wrench to the drive end of the tool, and gingerly pressed
the button. Brrip! The sender came right off! Neither the
sender, nor the housing, nor the bourdon tube were damaged!
- Jerry
p.s. TeriAnn, I will do my level best to find this tool for you.
Of course, knowing you, you might wish to make a better one:
the longer the slot, the better. Less chance of winding up
the bourdon tube. Still, it worked OK for me.
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* Jerry Kaidor jerry@tr2.com, jkaidor@synoptics.com *
* KF6VB *
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