At 02:56 PM 3/7/00 -0800, Milotay, Mark ISTA:EX wrote:
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>I was just wondering if what type of oil gauge (mechanical, electric...)
>should I be buying for my '80 Spitfire, and will it just run off of the
>connection that works the idiot light? I was in my local auto part store
>at lunch today & came to the realization that I don't know how the oil
>light works on my car (other than it is connected to the sending unit
>on the engine.
Mark,
What I did was get a small mechanical oil pressure guage, it's about 1"
to 1 1/2" in dia. There is a mounting kit that has basically a "Y". You
remove the sending unit from the block. Screw the "Y" in to the block and
then screw both the sending unit and the oil line for the mech. guage into
the "Y". The guage is small enough that it can be easily mounted on the
dash by drilling a hole. One of my parts cars had had this done, that's
where I got the guage. Really looked great.
John
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John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III
Morgan: www.team.net/www/morgan
Bricklin: www.bricklin.org
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