Placing a very fine orifice in the line, right at the engine case, would
allow you to get the oil pressure reading, while reducing the result of an
oil line rupture to a big mess, rather than a seized engine.

Joe Fahy

----- Original Message -----
From: "phil stanhope" <napszeerf@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: Where do you mount your gauges?

>
> A VW mechanic told me that having a really long VDO
> type oil gauge line can get snagged on something,
> break and leak out your oil. I wonder if this is going
> overboard on probablity factor.
>
> Phil 84' Westy
>
>
> > I do have a VDO oil temp sender that screws in as an
> > exact replacement for
> > the drain plug.  To torque or remove, I did have to
> > take a die grinder to a
> > cheap socket and reduce the wall thickness of the
> > socket.  Perhaps a high
> > quality Snap-On or other thin wall deep socket would
> > not require this.
> >
> > Joe Fahy
>
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