oil pressure gauge question

hey guys, question for ya, where in the motor can i tap in and put the signal sender thingie for an electric oil pressure gauge? i have one on order and should be here around the middle of the week. thanks

chris

yeah, you need a tee piece for the oil pressure switch, then you can attach the sender unit.

Originally posted by P11GT
yeah, you need a tee piece for the oil pressure switch, then you can attach the sender unit.


How and where could u do this? :)

You need a special T.

The OEM threads are 1/8 BSPT. The gauge sending unit will be 1/8 NPT. They are not compatible. Some people just cross thread them, but I wouldn't recommend it.

You need a T with a male 1/8 BSPT fitting on one end and a female 1/8 BSPT fitting on the other end. At a 90 degree angle to this, you need a female 1/8 NPT hole for the sending unit.

So far nobody makes them. You might be able to assemble one if you can find someone with some patience at a shop who is willing to help you. It won't be easy.

You should be able to get any reptuable machine shop to frabicate this for you. The trick is to find those BSPT taps and dies to make it with. Pricing around they will run about $30-$150 for the set USD. Most places that carry them are in europe but you can try www.tapsdirect.com I know they carry the tap but it doesnt show any dies online. Once you have those, making it isnt a problem. Although its quite a lot for just a connector. If there is enough demand for this, I could make them....

Added: Just got an email from www.mdmetric.com out of MD. Here is a price for the tap and die

1/8" BSPT tap $15.96 each
1/8" BSPT die $43.42 each
delivery: 1 wk

Added More: Good god! Just went to their site with that link, here is a direct link -http://mdmetric.com/britcut.htm -

Originally posted by A380Driver



How and where could u do this? :)

Look on my site and read the updates, its all in there, look for the link to Pirtek, search the company to see if there one nearer you as theyre international i think, they have the bits you need.

heres the link................
http://www.pirtekusa.com/locations.asp

damn man i dident think it was gonna be this hard, any particular place i can find those connectors, or mabie an easyer way to tap in???????

Yup it's a lot harder than you think. ;) I'm going to be hooking up my oil gauge this weekend. It's been on my a-pillar for about a year and a half. I think I have everything I need. I'll take some pics and post them here. You'll have to find your own parts however. Took me a hella long time. I don't even know if they will work either. :(

sweet man keep my posted. i should have mine definitly by the weekend so send me some pics so i can see what im doing. thanks

have a look at this site. this guys fitting a Hotshot turbo kit and hes got some pics of the tap in question.

http://www.brazosport.cc.tx.us/~lshadoff/turbo/

Originally posted by P11GT
have a look at this site. this guys fitting a Hotshot turbo kit and hes got some pics of the tap in question.

http://www.brazosport.cc.tx.us/~lshadoff/turbo/

Hey, that's my good friend Lew Shadoff's site!

He is using some AN fittings with adapters. Not exactly cheap.

I am hoping to offer some of these adapters for sale later this year, but I have to find a shop to work with. I already have one. A friend made it for me. :D Don't ask if my friend has any more or can make any more. Too late. Long gone.

My car came standard with an oil pressure gauge. (see pic). So perhaps there exists an OEM Nissan part (the T piece) which could solve this with minor modification.
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/263794T4AWDinteriorinstrumentcluster.jpg

Originally posted by P10DET
I am hoping to offer some of these adapters for sale later this year, but I have to find a shop to work with.

*Ahem* hehe...:D

3 axis CNC capcity, hand full of lathes and mills as well....

Originally posted by Yahnozha
*Ahem* hehe...:D

3 axis CNC capcity, hand full of lathes and mills as well....

Wow. For body jewelry? Holy cats.

OK, I have several items I need to have produced. :D

I will have to get you some drawings. I don't know how to use Auto CAD or any of the other CAD packages, so they will likely be draw on paper the old fashioned way. However, if the cost changes by supplying a CAD drawing, I guess I could learn.

I have a number of items that would be relatively low volume production, probably in runs anywhere from 5 to 20 per run (depending upon the particular product). I'm looking for a shop that is interested in work to fill idle machine/operator capacity (read low rates :D ). As such I can be flexible on delivery so you are able to fit it into idle time.

Still interested?

Originally posted by P10DET
Wow. For body jewelry? Holy cats.
Yeah, I figured it was going to be simple machining in the get go...10 years later, Ive got a machine shop...pretty cool I thought. Although, we do a lot of tiny machining and tapping (0-80 threadding and 1/32 Ball nose endmilling). Id like to to bigger stuff thats cool...:D

I don't know how to use Auto CAD or any of the other CAD packages, so they will likely be draw on paper the old fashioned way. However, if the cost changes by supplying a CAD drawing, I guess I could learn.
Ive got a really cool program, called Solidworks, www.solidworks.com its a 97 version that I bought back in 97, duh, I could make you a copy and send it out. Its a really intuitive 3-D CAD program and is geared for doing a whole lot of stuff other than just parts. The nice thing is the files are really small so emailing them is keen.

Still interested?
Yep...Just to let you know, im in the process of moving my business come late Feb or early March, so Ill be down for a bit. Ive got my Strut Tower Brace Im working on as well, so if youre in no rush we can hash out the details.

Email me your address and Ill get out the copy of the program for you to test out. Runs well on almost any Pentium based PC.

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