<VV> [FC] Help with replacing the temp ...

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

Assuming you actually have a temp sender -- there are few original 
engines left out there in our Corvairs.  Nearly all have been modified, 
rebuilt, overhauled, repaired, or something.  Maybe the last guy in 
there didn't put one back in (God would know why), so possibly you are 
looking for the place where it "should" be.

Since you say you have a car engine (which is not uncommon), the 
earliest cars, i.e., mostly some 1960's, used an oil temp sender down on 
the side of the block, near the car's dipstick boss.  The brass 'snap 
switch' in the head is easily the most common -- inspect for good 
threads in the hole if you find the hole to be empty.  And, I suppose 
you "could" have an undrilled left hand head on the right hand side ...   

Bill Strickland