Oil Temperature and pressure sender block.

[syncrosimon]

In a bid to monitor the oil in my heavy van to avoid premature destruction I have been looking at reliable ways of fitting sender units.
Having noted that the Germans use a sandwich plate to take oil from the oil filter, for additional cooling, I saw that they also do a plate which just houses a pressure sender and temp sender. I then did some research with Merlin Motorsport for a similar product.

Link to German site

http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl=en ... en___GB212

In above link go to T3, then oil cooler.

Merlin came up with a Mocal device called a TGASP100

This is priced at £43.71 excluding.

I was just interested to hear from anyone who has used such a device, and how they got on with it. Would be going on a syncro 2.1 DJ.

There would possibly be a problem with retaining the standard filter. On the linked German website it looks like they use a shorter filter which would give clearance for the exhaust.

Link to Merlin Motorsport for example of sandwich plates.

http://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/OIL-S ... index.html

Any thoughts gratefully appreciated.

Simon

[Westy.Club.Joker]

I`ve got a sandwich plate on my 1.6TD (to run an extra oil cooler mounted up the front), still use the standard water/oil cooler as well, BUT needed a shorter oil filter due to length clearance issues.

[syncrosimon]

What filter did you use, I guess that with the right extension bolt you can fit anything????

[Westy.Club.Joker]

Mine is on a TD motor, the shorter, fatter filter is off a 1.9TDI T4