I'm in the midst of replacing the radiator on my Dodge Colt/Mitsubishi Mirage. Bought a new rad locally and removed my old one. As I was swapping the fan and temp. sensor over to the new radiator, I noticed the threads in the new rad are much too large for my old sensor. The parts place says "Oh, yeah, you need to go to the hardware store and cobble together a pipe-fitting adaptor ..." So much for the promises of a "direct fit". The bozos couldn't even sell me a new temp sensor with the proper threads. After an hour in my local Tru-Valu, I found a brass adaptor that barely fit; even when tightened all the way down, the sensor wobbles in the fitting, and the fitting never really seals into the radiator, even with liberal layers of Teflon tape. Are these sensor/radiator fittings on a Japanese car REALLY American pipe thread, as two different auto parts stores have told me? And if so, where does one find a suitable adaptor? Or should I just return the damned thing and buy one elsewhere? Jeffrey Earl 1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi" http://www.vanthology.com/
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