question...how do you feel about chopping the housing/neck from the flange and rewelding it to the position that would best fit?

I wanted to do this, pretty bad, but it just seemed like it would be hard to make a nice bend. It'd be some close quarters welding, I was thinking you could get a nice neck and then put IT on the end.... But this was not too bad. REally, just cutting off the end, dremelling it flat and laying a bead on it to hold the hose one would be the perfect easy/budget way to do this, if you take care with the dremel.

I too an currently doing a reroute on my 00 and I have the spacer that will be taped for heater core and the kia waterneck. I'm looking for a good place to tap the temp sensor. With the cold side reroute I can not place the sensor in the back of the head, it gets in the way of the waterneck. Has anyone taped the side of the head? Like the picture. I understand the EGR tube would be in the way but thats now long gone. I don't have the means to weld aluminum to thicken up the spacer to keep the sensor from hitting the thermostat so thats out. Anyone ever cut a temp sensor; does it really need to be that long?


Thanks!

Here a better pic if where I'm thinking of taping.
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You can't just put it in where that bolt is, above and left of your X. Others have tapped the side of the head, well, basically where I did. Check my pictures. I put a heater core bung there but you could put your temp sensor?