If you have an 81 air cooled, I wonder if the dipstick sender would work. I 
had on on my 79 bus and it worked fine with the VDO gauge(VDO made the 
sender too).

Ken Lewis sent me a cool mod foro his temp sender.  He made a plate that 
covered the hole on his 2.1 oil filler at the block and the sender screwed 
in there.  He bought an EMPI filler for the 4 bolt thingie where the 
generator stand used to sit for  adding oil to the engine.

My 2.1 I took a brass adapter I found on ebay for a few dollars.  I had a 
VDO temp sender with a 10mmx1mm thread pitch and this particular adapter 
had a big hex nut shape and had the 14x 1.5 pitch for the drain plug of the 
2.1 and the 10x1 pitch for the sender on the other end.  Yeah, the wire is 
a little vulnerable to road hazards, but it hasn't fallen off yet.  I found 
our napa store stocks several vdo senders and can order about anything vdo 
sells.

My donation to the cause.

Max

At 12:53 PM 1/28/2005, Yanik B�chard wrote:
>Any one of you have any advice on installing an oil temp sender.  Where did
>you intalled it, what kind of sender did you use and what mod you had to
>perform. Is there a sender that fits right in? if yes which one?
>
>Thanks
>_________________________________
>Yanik B.
>
>81 Westy Original owner