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Subject:Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:49:33 -0700

the electric gauge and sender isn't a problem.
I get a   0-100 psi  VDO gauge ..
cockpit series I think,
from e-gagues.com.
and I get the sender from them too.
and a nice black pod for the guage sometimes too.

it's where the sender goes that's an issue .
I bought from tencentife ...
I was installing one of his engines and oil coolers in a syncro ..
a little pipe set up
that has a fitting to scew into the block between the pusrod tubes where the
stock oil press switch is located ..
and then the pipe comes out and around forward ..
then you screw a junction block, or T to the top of the pipe...
that way you have the sender and keep the original oil pressure swtich both
working.

once I saw that pipe set up ..
I just went to my FLAPS and got a brake line  and fittings that was similar.

Scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Mcneely" <mcneely4@COX.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: I guess if I'm putting on a tencentlife oil cooler . . .

> ---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> ...I might as well look into rigging an oil pressure gauge. Anyone got a
>> handy kit or anything?
>
> They are widely available.  Check any of the vendors.  Make sure the gauge
> matches up with the sender.  Some like to have an oil temperature gauge
> with them.
>
> mcneely
>
>>
>> 1.9L AT.
>> --
>> Rocky J Squirrel
>> '84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>> '74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>> Bend, OR
>> KG6RCR
>
> --
> David McNeely