rider56AK

ok maybe entitled was the wrong word...but its still morally right to help out a fellow f150 forum'er who needs help like this. an everheating engine is not fun especially when youre 22 and basically broke. idk, i just figured this topic wouldve been an easy one for people to answer cuz im assuming that this happens a lot. cuz if anyone here absolutely needed my help on here with something as simple as an explanation and a couple pictures, i'd do it cuz thats what youre supposed to do. (not that i know that much about mechanics) but if anyone needed a high def video or a high res picture, i could help them there because i have some pretty decent camera gear that i'd be wiling to use

rider56AK

but you get what im saying right? im not trying to be rude but whenever i ask a specific question, i always get some backwards answer thats not relevant to my exact truck specs..i dont give a **** if youre honda has a T-stat in "X" location...i just wanna know where the **** it would be in a 1989 f250 with the 351 EFI

Forge-World-FORD

Your morals aren't everyone's morals. You got an answer, pic or not, and you still respond to it like an ***. The temp gauge sensor is a single stud connector sensor. Did the one you cleaned off look like that? Did you even bother looking at your damn engine after you got your answer of where it might be? Yes this is the F150forum, 150. You're asking something about a F250. Engine use aside, that alone -could- be putting some people off. I figure searching Google before being an *** here was too hard because i assume most people would have tried looking it up on their own before jumping straight to a forum essentially demanding answers. Is your truck actually overheating or does the gauge just not work.


"Not trying to be rude but I'm going to be anyway". Again, take a few seconds and figuratively look around you. How many people on an F150 forum site would you expect to have your exact truck specs on an F>250<.

As a general unwritten rule, we of the forum help those who help themselves, for the most part. Sometimes threads get pushed out of view before many get a chance to see it or those who do just don't have the answer. If the choice is to help a rude *** that's demanding answers and making assumptions about the forum, or helping someone that has done their own research and either can't find what they're looking for or simply doesn't understand what they have found and needs help...we're inclined to help person number 2.

rider56AK

yes i searched google and found no answers...and theres lots of super dutys and f250's/f350 threads on here..the site is just called f150 forum cuz it would be silly to call it f250forums.com, no one would go to it. trust me, if i knew what to look for i wouldnt be on here, im not a mechanic by any means but im usually pretty good at figuring things out as long as someone helps me the first couple steps of the way.

A 5.8 is a 5.8 no matter what truck you put it in..

well, i'd have no clue if its actually over heating or not cuz i dont have a temp gauge to tell by..no, i dont notice anything out of the ordinary when im driving it. it leaks coolant so im re-filling the resevoir regularly which is why i hope i can get this fixed with little to no cost. i just dont know what to check for. words dont help in this situation cuz once again im not a mechanic so i wont have anhy clue what you guys are talking about if you tell me something.

i have only basic hand tools and im terrible with electricity so when someone told me to ground a wire just to "test" it, i couldnt cuz i would mess up my truck

rider56AK

"The temp gauge sensor is a single stud connector sensor. Did the one you cleaned off look like that?"

thats one of those things that im talking about.."a single stud connector" ? yeah, no ****ing idea what that means...

Forge-World-FORD

First page of Google results contained all of this

The temperature gauge "switch" will be the smaller, single wire sensor, screws into the lower intake to the RIGHT of the distributor

Looks like this, notice the single stud connection. Pretty simple concept, one stud that is used as a connector.




Goes where indicated

rider56AK

here is the connector that i unplugged

Forge-World-FORD

They call it F150Forum because it's for F150s. Before super duty was its own thing the 250s and 350s had many similarities with the 150s. That's why there are so many threads on here with them, doesn't make it right to ask questions about them here. Its like asking questions about an sn95 mustang on a site that only deals with fox body style mustangs just because you have the same engine as one. Do you know what grounding means? This is the stuff you would research and THEN ask about. How do you expect to get any useful information if you don't even understand what's being said.

rider56AK

ok so on that bottom picture...what exactly am i looking at? is that a manfold? and what side of the engine would that be on if we were looking at a 5.8?

rider56AK

a mustang is a mustang I.M.O...as long as theyre from similar years..yeah id be pissed if it was an foxbody forum site and someone came on with the 2014's..
yes, i have researched. which is why i need specifics before i start ****ing with ****. i know what grounding is too but im not gonna touch any wiring like that on a vehicle unless i know 100000% sure that the person giving me the information is right