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Old 10-20-2003   #1 (permalink)
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Default Oil Pressure Gauge? Need help installing...

Recently, the stock oil gauge on the dash just stopped working, i have NO idea why.. but anyway... i almost ran out of oil in my car cause i thought the gauge was still working (must not be connected or something, cause the pressure is always right in the middle of the gauge).
Regardless, i went out and bought a nice new A-pillar to mount my new auto meter Ultra-Lite 2 1/16inch Electrical Oil Pressure gauge in said pillar, when i realized..
"I dont know how to connect this!" and decided to abort the mission...

Help!?
Its pretty basic stuff, but ive never actually installed an aftermarket gauge before...
Thoughts from everyone please!! Thanks...
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there are 2 ways, disconect the oil preasure sending unit on the extention just infront of the oil filter and put it in there OR tap a new hole in the same extention
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I believe you can also just put a "tee" fitting into the original hole and run both sending units from the same hole since hydraulic pressure acts equally on all parts of a closed system. Also, the pressure gauge will not show a noticeable difference from low oil until it is really low i think.
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