Where to install oil temp and oil pressure gauges?

[Cheesetoast]

pics plz? i see a spot on top of hte oil filter, shoudl i use that for oil pressure?

[dieselpower]

i used the spot on the oil filter as my oil temp...put the oil pressure in the head so that you know that oil is getting to the head. thats what i did anyway. on the right hand side of the head in the upper left corner is where the other pressure sensor goes. hope this helps.


Mark

[Cheesetoast]

so best way to do it is to get a t spliter?

oil temp at filter housing, left bolt looking from above, and oil pressure from the port on the right side of the upper engine eh?

[dieselpower]

thats what i did...i only have one oil pressure sender. on the head.


Mark

[fspGTD]

I got an oil pressure sending unit from a late-80's / early 90's cabriolet that has two electrical terminals coming off of it - one for the good ol' dummy light and another for oil pressure gauge.  It's a cylindrical canister-like thing that screws into the M10x1.0 port in the driver's side of the head.  It directly replaces the dummy-light sending unit that usually gets mounted there, and keeps fairly clean installation (no need for "T" fittings, etc.)  The canister is a little bit on the bulky side though... I had to re-route a boost tube to clear it!

I have oil temp measured off the top of the oil filter mounting bracket and tand of course the OEM turbo supply line connection there as well in the usual location.

[Cheesetoast]

installed oil temp today, used the extra bolt hole on the top of the oil filter.  Man that bolt was tight! i used a breaker bar and a 5mm allen key to get it off after soaking it in liquid wrench, musta took about 100 ft pounds, big snap, i thought it broke the allen key.  works great!  Oil pressure tommorrow, gotta get a big socket for taking off the stock sender to put a splitter on.