installed my electric oil pressure gauge today

[scottsee]

i've had the gauge for about 2 months now. i just wanted to wait untell i need to change my oil agian to install it. boy, what a bitch ass mother fucker that install was. i remote mounted the sending unit to my firewall. i zip tied it for now to the throttle cable behind the intake manifold right next to the power stearing resivore. i started at 10:30am got done at 2pm. i really didnt expect it to take that long. i waisted alot of time trying to get the new brass T-fittings to screw into the oil housing. it just flat out did not want to be screwed in more then a half turn. i finally (after 30-45 min) figured out that wrenches needed to be involved and everything after that went fairly smoothly. i had to search alot to find what ignition wire i was suppose to use for the gauge. i went through alot of vip-ties, and had a small leak from not haveing the steal braded line tight enough on the Autometer oil pressure sending unit. all and all. i'll probably never want to do that agian.

searcher..

Autometer remote mounting supply:
1/8" NPT inch brass t-fitting
male to male 1/8"brass fitting
3' to 3'6'' steal braided hose w/male fitting (for t-fitting) & female fittings(for sending unit)

Wireing:
back light: cigarett lighter wires. Green&white stripe(power) Black (ground). using these lights will give you the ability to dim your gauge with the rest of your dash lights.

Gauge (ignition/ground): behind the steering colum is where i tapped my ignition wire. take 4 10mm bolts off the lower steering colums covering to expose the wireing. there are lots of wires. wrapped in a black tubing are 4-5 wires (one is a Large white wire) ignition sorce will be the Black&white stripe wire. i think you can figure out how to find a ground. but i used one of the stearing bracket bolts.

[kjewer1]

When remote mounting the guage, I like to ground the sensor body. Shit, I did that even when it was mounted to the block. The accuracy of the guage depnds on it, but it also depends on how accurate you want that guage to be I guess. To ground the body I put the ground wire under a hose clamp that I tightened around the sender. You could also ground the sender to the cars body if you mount it permanently. This is for signal ground, not the lighting ground. IIRC, they are two diferent wires.