> From: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
> I lost one engine with a broken oil guage line and was bad. Then the line
> broke at the dash end
> and filled the cabin and my shoes with hot oil and that was worse. Then
when
> testing the line it popped off
> the guage and shot me in the eyes and that was enough.
>
> I replaced the guage with an electric unit. That means that I have a
steel
> bodied sender screwed into the oil
> gallery where the old pipe came out. Then it is just a single wire going
up
> to the new 2 1/8" guage. Malheuresement
> it is not a Smiths guage, but I hope to find a nice electric Smiths from
a
> Jag. But now I am protected from having a
> personalised oil heating system in the cabin.
For those who want to retain the stock gauge, you can have a stainless
steel braided oil line made up.
Irv Korey
Highland Park, IL
74 TR6 CF22767U
TR4 CT52499 (almost ready vintage racer)
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