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Jose L. Pan
| | Posted on Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 02:46 am: | 
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Where can I plug it to? I think its important to know it, so I got me the rigth gauge for it, but the only place I found so far it's at the oil pump and I dont want to mess up my stock sensor..... |
perroneford
| | Posted on Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 07:39 am: |
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There is a blank plug on top of the oil pump you can use. This will leave the stock sensor intact but will give you a pressure reading as soon as possible to let you know whether you're pump is pushing oil.
-P |
Paul T. Schram (Paulschram)
| | Posted on Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 09:33 am: |
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Worse yet, the stock sensor threads appeared to me to be BPP thread, rather than NPT-meaning the hole in the front cover does not have tapered threads and a US oil pressure gauge fitting might not seal well and that would be the last place I would want to leak AGAIN! When my sensor went bad, the oil just poured out-glad I caught it early!
Paul |
Bill Bettridge (Billb)
| | Posted on Monday, October 14, 2002 - 08:45 am: |
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I didn't want to deal with drilling and tapping or looking for an adapter for both my mechanical gauge and stock sender, so I plumbed a tube connector fitting with a 1/4" fpt outlet (a "T" fitting in other words)into the oil cooler inlet line (top line on the radiator - pass side). Works fine. The stock tubing is 1/2", so the tube fitting is easy to find.
Bill |
Matt Milbrandt (95discovery)
| | Posted on Monday, October 14, 2002 - 09:09 am: |
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If I remember correctly, the thread on the sensor is 1/2"-20.
Matt |
perroneford
| | Posted on Monday, October 14, 2002 - 11:09 am: |
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I dropped off my spare blanking plug at the machine shop, picked it up a few hours later. Drill and tap for $5. Seemed a very easy way to me to solve this issue.
-P |
Paul T. Schram (Paulschram)
| | Posted on Monday, October 14, 2002 - 12:09 pm: |
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Thought you didn't have any machine shops down there P?
You don't have a drill and a tap? Time to break out those catalogs.
Paul |
Eric Ratermann (Ericrat)
| | Posted on Friday, October 18, 2002 - 12:28 pm: |
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I don't suppose anyone knows what size British pipe thread that plug is?
Then we could buy an adapter from;
http://www.mcmaster.com/catalog/108/html/0021.html
What do you think? |
Mike B.
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 07:46 am: |
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I've thought about this from time to time too. Where do you plan to mount the oil guage?
Thanks,
Mike B. |
hendrik
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 09:28 am: |
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Why not weld a nut of the required thread to the plug (which was drilled beforehand). |
gordon sitts (Gsitts)
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 06:45 pm: |
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does anyone have a favorite mounting location for the guage? |
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