When you do the final assembly on your motor, use hondabond on the rear water neck. I tried to use the included orings and it leaked. I put a generic temp sensor from ebay in the 1/8" npt port on the water neck and connected it to the factory wiring. My OEM water temp gauge works fine and reports a position which seems to match what Hondata is telling me. Careful with a lot of the cheap temp sensors. I tried two different amazon sellers which had 3pks listed as 1/8npt, but after multiple returns they kept sending M10x1.0 sensors. The single $10ish sensor I bought off ebay was 1/8 npt.