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I am looking to install a coolant level sensor into the stock tank (the tall one).
New cars have a fairly simple device that warns the driver when the coolant level in the tank is low.

I need to find a coolant sensor that would connect to the Pantera cap neck.
So far the sensors that I have found are made for a smaller diameter neck.
The length of the sensors seem to be about right for the Pantera tank.

Can anyone shed any light on this subject?
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The sensors I've seen are reed switches, activated by a magnet. There will be a floating plastic part that raises & lowers with the coolant level, inside this floating part is a small magnet. The magnet will apply its attraction upon a reed switch and close or open the contacts. Those contacts are very fragile, not designed to handle much current, not even the current of a 12 volt lamp.

The picture below is that of a Ford reed switch, pulled from the bottom of a coolant tank. A plastic donut with an embedded magnet floated up and down around a stand pipe inside the coolant tank, the thin black stem of the switch inserted into the stand pipe.

In the second picture I've removed the thin black stem by force to reveal the tiny little reed switch indicated by the point of the pen, its encased in glass. This switch had gone bad & indicated low all the time (closed contacts).

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The sensor I have is from my 92 Taurus SHO. It is the perfect length for the Pantera tank BUT it is made for the Taurus plastic overflow bottle which has a smaller neck.
If I were Johnny Woods I'd weld on a smaller cap neck on the bottle. If I were Billet Specialties, I'd machine an adaptor cap.
If I were John Holmes...ah forget that.
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Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
The sensor I have is from my 92 Taurus SHO. It is the perfect length for the Pantera tank BUT it is made for the Taurus plastic overflow bottle which has a smaller neck.
If I were Johnny Woods I'd weld on a smaller cap neck on the bottle. If I were Billet Specialties, I'd machine an adaptor cap.
If I were John Holmes...ah forget that.


Hey fellow Pantera and Taurus SHO owner! I have a white 1990 SHO which is known by the Arizona SHO Club members as the "Garage Queen".
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