Coolant temp sender adaptor

lolzor123, May 7, 5:01pm
So I bought an aftermarket coolant temp gauge (which included a new sender and 2 adaptors.) off here last week. Wasn't till I went to replace old sender with new sender (and the adaptor that looked most likely to fit) that I realised it wasn't going to :/ It's maybe a mm out! This is on a 91 Mazda Familia interplay, and no I don't want to cut radiator hose and put one of those sender adaptor T's there.anyone else had this problem! Would some sort of engineering/fastners place have a suitable adaptor!
Thanks in advance :)

carnie3, May 7, 5:08pm
Try Capital Instruments, They have a lot of adaptors for sender units.

lolzor123, May 7, 5:11pm
Hoping for a local solution (I'm in Dunedin) but if it comes to it. Thanks

lolzor123, May 7, 5:30pm
Also, if anyone knows off hand what size I need to go into the engine block thread that would save me unscrewing the sender and leaking coolant again!

lolzor123, May 7, 8:53pm
ok, one more question - would repco etc stock this sort of thing - or is it best to go through an auto electrician!

realtrader1, May 7, 8:57pm
Why not just get the real thing,,, either at a wrecker, agent or super cheap, Repco etc.I wouldn't mess around with an adapter.

lolzor123, May 7, 9:15pm
Sender needs to be specific to the gauge.and using after market gauge as the original one on the cluster is dodgy and trying to avoid replacing whole cluster etc.