Kuhniee

so i bought a oil pressure guage awhile back and am going to be doing an oil change soon... i was wondering where the sending unit is attatched to the engine... I was thingking it was where there seems to be a sending unit of some type next to the oil filter but ive never installed one before so help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks in advance guys

canadaek

ya it's just above the filter housing if your motor has the oil cooler you will have to get an extension and if you want to keep the idiot light a T fitting the 1/4 pipe thread i think a really cheap hose to use is a grease gun hose they have the same thread and a very flexable and rated for high psi i used one for 2 years with no problems

Kuhniee

so i would put the t fitting onto the motor... then on one outlet the dummy light would screw in and then on the 2nd outlet the sender from the guage would screw in?

Matt93eg

Don't do it that way, that will put a lot of weight on that Oil Sending port and the T fitting could snap off in your block. Get the correct T(IIRC its a 1/8NPT)and then get some SS braided hose. Screw your factory oil sending unit into the T fitting, screw the SS hose into another side and mount the gauge sending unit somewhere on the firewall, etc. So the hose runs from the T fitting to the sending unit. This keeps excess weight off the sending port in your block.

jdmwannabee

follow these instructions
http://theoldone.com/articles/oilpressure/

Kuhniee

i found gauges by glowshift... any opinions becasue they have an adaper plate that goes on where you screw your oilfilter in and the sensor screws into the sandwitch thing and your oil filter over that.. anyone have opinions or experiences with glowshift??

Kuhniee

bump

grumblemarc

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What are you bumping for? You could have bought one and installed it by now.

Kuhniee

i want to know opinions and experiences on glowshift

grumblemarc

iTrader: (4)

Glowshift is cheap garbage IMO. Check the better builds on H-T. Do you see any of them rocking Glowshift gauges? I'd rock a cheap Sunpro before one of these.