Fitting Oil Pressure Gauge to a 1.6td

[pocolow]

I want to fit an oil pressure gauge to my 1990 1.6td..What would everyone recommend and more importantly how do I go about doing it..

Mark

[armyphil]

It's simples get a gauge with a sender, on top of the oil filter housing there are blanking plugs take one out and fit the sender, the wiring may be specific to the gauge but normally it's a live a nrg and an ignition feed.

The hardest part is routing the cables

[pocolow]

Ta Phil on my Diesel there are only two plugs on the oil filter housing....one for the high rev/low pressure switch and one for the turbo oil feed pipe.. so where would I fit the sender??

Mark

[armyphil]

I thought there were three on the oil filter heads you could get rid of one if you wanted and use an after Market as long as you know what pressures they run at??

[pocolow]

So on a diesel 1.6td where would you fix the sender for the pressure gauge as space is tight around the oil filter pressure switch???

[armyphil]

I have a 1y sorry but I thought they had the same filter heads I have plenty of room maybe PM ringo I know he's good around these engines??

Sorry

[jed the spread]

You can buy a sender that does the oil pressure on one terminal and the pressure switch on another terminal on the sender.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OIL-PRESSURE-GAUG ... 500wt_1182" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Or if you get the cheaper sender that only does the oil presure and you still need an outlet for the presure switch you will need one of these to give you two holes.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/T-PIECE-OIL-PRESS ... 4307wt_941" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hope this helps

jed