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Old Jan 12, 2023 | 09:27 PM
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Anyone have a diagram showing location of this sensor? It's not in the little tank where you check the level.
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Old Jan 13, 2023 | 03:51 AM
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You're looking for this item (brown)
It's a glass tube that clicks into the base of the header tank, the float inside can stick on it's shaft causing a "LOW COOLANT" message.
This is generally caused by limescale on the shaft. Moving the float up and down with your finger clears the scale so it's back to normal sensing.
It's rare for the sensor to fail - a simple hall effect switch, more likely the float stuck.


 
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Old Jan 13, 2023 | 06:59 PM
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THX Sean B! would never have looked there. Light comes on every now and then, so thot I'd get ahead of it
 
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