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OH MY FREAKIN GOD IT'S DONE!

FInally found the problem.... It was a loose nut on the tailight ground. So anyways today bought some auto meter guages for it... mounted them under the stereo. There's a tach and a oil pressure guage. but the guage came with NPT fittings and I have to find a metric fitting to convert it. Does anybody know what size the thread is on the original oil pressure sender? And should I buy any more guages to go with what I've got?

The van runs beautifully now and I'm extremely happy with the results. It's a whole lot quieter than when we got it.

Pictures coming soon.

Thanks again for everyones help!

Cheers again,

Scott

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westfaliaguy
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Dennis Wik

Well done scott ! From now on you will check all grounds 1st !

Rich

Reply to
Tricky

The sender tapping will happily accept a 1/8" NPT nipple. I (personally) don't like Teflon tape on threads here but you can use pipe dope or Loctite.

There! I've done it. That should start a new thread on tape... :-)

Speedy Jim

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Speedy Jim

Great! See: it wasn't haunted after all :)

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Remco

For sure..... There is a new teflon out there mainly in plumbing supply shops that is pink and alot thicker than the white stuff... not so many hairs etc. Works awesome.

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westfaliaguy

been around forever....we used to use it on threaded gas pipe...

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Joey Tribiani

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Erik Dillenkofer

Yeah it is an electric sender however it's much too big to fit in the hole in the tin. So I'm gonna have to go buy some fittings. I figure a long-ish coupling, a 90 degree bend to take it over toward the coil then another coupling then the sender. I can't believe the size of this thing, it's huge! Auto meter wasn't thinking about volksies when they designed this behemoth.

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westfaliaguy

You'll want to consider vibration with that thing hanging way off all that piping. After 5,000 miles something will probably snap. Maybe consider a pig's tail of copper tubing running to the sender.

Speedy Jim

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