From: "Roger Garnett" <rwg1@postoffice3.mail.cornell.edu>
|> > 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.
I believe 72 and up (at least 74 & 75) are mechanical gauges. The
switch for these is actually just an on/off switch for the low
pressure warning light.
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