Fellows,
I did just what Mark was suggesting - installing an electric unit - not
knowing it at the time that it was from a Jag. I found a Smith gauge at
the local "junk-shop" (up on I-35 North of Austin, TX), and with a help
from my mechanic determined that it came off a Jag. Went to the local
Jag-dealer and actually found the /#()"%&)/"(#¤% sending unit - cost a
bloody fortune - but worked (later turned out that the thread wasn't the
exact match, and despite a few couplings continued to leak a bit of oil
with the engine block. Before leaving from TX I sold the car to a fellow
on this list - and it also give him a fair bit of trouble (not so much
because of the oil-feed but because of the DPO (=me)'s mechanic and some
of the work that he did).
Cheers,
Michael
'71 TR6 PI (frame, engine, gearbox, drivetrain - the rest is junk)
'74 TR6 US-model - body - needs some work - will be transplanted to the
PI car.
>Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:11:11 -0500
>From: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
>Subject: Fw: TR6: Fun w/oil gauge feed
>
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>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.
>
>Mark Hooper
>mhooper@pixelsystems.com
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