paul mac Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 rightly or wrongly i have a couple of cooling fans to replace the stock jobby, i dont want to run these all the time so i am looking at a couple of thermostats (to switch at different temps), i dont want all this gubbins including a temp gauge sender stuck in view in the top pipes and obstructing flow, so was wondering if i could use my long redundant throttle body heating connection, the Toyota manual has a diagram of the cooling circuit but its unclear (to me anyway) anyone have any thoughts on using the throttle body connection or done this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kranz Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 You may not get a reliable temperature reading at the throttle body. However, if you can trace it back to being fed from the top hose, or from a similar location, and being the same tempseature then it should be okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul mac Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 You may not get a reliable temperature reading at the throttle body. However, if you can trace it back to being fed from the top hose, or from a similar location, and being the same tempseature then it should be okay. cheers for the quick response, i was thinking there may be some "lag" in this location but that could be taken into consideration with the stats, it think it may pay to just get the temp gauge in there and see how it reads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kranz Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 You would need to compare it against top hose temp and see what the lag is like at critical times like accel. Twin fan with a dual switching thermoswitch is what I had..... but sold the lot. IIRC I had fan 1 set at 95C and fan 2 at 103C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky-Ricky Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 The HKS fan controller with read the std temp sender and will switch two fans at different temps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul mac Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 The HKS fan controller with read the std temp sender and will switch two fans at different temps. cheers bud will look into one, sounds a lot neater than thermostats everywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 I have a similar query so might as well ask in here. With a temperature sender for a gauge is there any reason for it to go into the top of the hose? I was thinking that, to keep it neat, i could tap it in underneath the pipe so that it would be hidden. Does it need to be at the top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul mac Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 I have a similar query so might as well ask in here. With a temperature sender for a gauge is there any reason for it to go into the top of the hose? I was thinking that, to keep it neat, i could tap it in underneath the pipe so that it would be hidden. Does it need to be at the top? no mate its a pressurised system so it wont matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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