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Re: MGB oil pressure sender

To: Paul Osborne <paul@ee.rochester.edu>, wade@ops.tridom.com
Subject: Re: MGB oil pressure sender
From: "Roger Garnett" <rwg1@postoffice3.mail.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 10:56:50
> From:          Paul Osborne <paul@ee.rochester.edu>
> > and a stupid ELECTRIC
> > OIL PRESSURE SENDER!!! (fits 68-72 or so, looks like a small doorknob)
> > 
> >     None around here anywhere, new or used. All are either in use or
> > busted. 
>       
>       Wade, are you sure you have the right item, or has there 
>       been a retrofit of something new? Oil pres. guages have always
>       been mechanical. Before the single guage between the spedo and tach.
>       it shared the same housing with the temp guage.

Bzzzt! Wade is correct- only early B's (63-67) Have a mechanical oil guage.
The 68 and up have a oil line going to an electrical sending unit, which is
mounted on the fire wall near the heater. The 68-71 sender is highly prone
to failure, and are expensive. (ie: Vicky brit- 149.00 !) 

72-80 used a much cheaper switch- (10.95), which may not be compatible with 
the 68-71 guage. Scott?

Or, the guage for the 72-76 may fit the 68-71- I'm not sure tho.
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