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Re: waster temp guage

To: BCAH@aol.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: waster temp guage
From: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 19:41:11 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Bob, 
I do not recall needing an adapter to do the bulb
relo, and I had a plug in my hardware bin.  Nothing
unusual, just a pipe plug.  Don't recall size,
although I just reassembled my head not even an hour
ago (car works, goes like hell for those who care). 
Pretty large, 1/2 inch maybe? 

Ron


--- BCAH@aol.com wrote:
> I am still researching the "948-to-1275" switch for
> my Bugeye. As I 
> understand it,  the mech water temp bulb (which
> normally screws into the 
> radiator) just simply screws into the engine cyl
> head. Is this true? Someone 
> said there was an adaptor involved to do
> this,-----11K2846--------as the bulb 
> itself was too long. Am I on the right track? If I
> did this , what blocks up 
> the new hole in the radiator?  Of course, an old
> bulb from the trash bin 
> would work,----but what thread bolt would be used to
> plug the hole? Somehow I 
> get a feeling you can not just go down to the
> hardware store and buy a brass 
> plug fitting. There was thread some time ago about
> British screwthreads  
> being different from USA stuff . The difference
> being very small.  I think 
> this is why why people are just forcing stuff
> together and getting away with 
> it. What do you people think?  Bob C
> 



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