Hans,
The guage went electrical at some point between 66 and 71. The sender is
located just below the engine id tag. It is a cylinder with a small oil
pipe coming out of the rear into the block and the other side has a
connector for a single wire that goes into the harness and directly to the
oil guage. If memory serves me the wire is white with brown but I could
be wrong. The sender and gauge work similarly to the temperature stuff,
but I don't remember how exactly to test them, I think that if you ground
the sender lead while it is connected to the gauge you will get one
extreme and if you connect it to +12v then you will get the other.
Someone please back me up here so I don't say something that will fry his
oil gauge.
James Nazarian
'71 B roadster
'74 BGT bastardization with big aluminum heart :)
'63 Buick 215 cubic inch 'heart'
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Skye Poier wrote:
> Word on the street is that Hans Duinhoven said:
> > how this circuit is wired? funny to see, that the oil pressure gauge
> > in the
> > wiring diagram only is connected to the dash instrument illumination
> > circuit. (43)
> > the diagram does not show any connection to the sender.
>
> Unless it changed between 1966 and 1971, the oil pressure gauge is controlled
> by real live oil fed from a pipe that comes from the block just behind the
> distributor.
>
> Skye
>
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