On another thread, we talked about overheating. After replacing the Thermostat with a Motorcraft RT1110 (a Reich is to much $$ to me)I was still overheating. Decided to replace drivers side Temperature Sendor / Sensor
. I Looked up the item at Tasca and part was too expensive because it came with the pigtail. Went to Rockauto and the Standard Brand item said STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS TX6T. That was incorrect. The correct item is Standard Brand TS376. (Do not use TS376T)
See in picture1 the correct item on the left. The connectors are the same. In picture 2, you can see the used sensor has a different bottom (sensor). In picture 3 you can see how
the sensor is burn out. Since replacing this, my heater now works shortly after I start the car. Before, it took till the car's engine was fully heated. This costs $11.66 on Amazon, E-bay has a lot of five for under $26. and Rockauto is $10.38 + frt. This is an inexpensive item to replace to improve your heater's performance ( especially on higher mileage cars like both of mine.)
I will be doing this shortly on my Silver also.
sensor pic1.jpgsensor pictire 1a.jpgsensor pic 2.jpg