Hi all I want to put an electric oil pressure/sender was just wondering where the best place was to take it off on my yb engine? Any help.

 

i find mechanical gauges to be better; you can go off where the existing oil pressure switch at the rear of the block inlet side

 

i run mine off a sandwich plate between the filter mate , and the reading in rubbish, might just be a shit sender though or rubbish gauge

 

electric ones tend to be useless unless it a decent one

you might as well call it a paranoia gauge

 

was thinking of using the manual gauge but didn't want to run a pipe in the car. Is yours Reading ok?

 

sandwich plate are good but the two wheel drive does not have the room i did a tap adaptor of the turbo feed but not good for the temp sender !

 

i had a electric one and it was useless; its important that the sender matches the gauge as you cant mix and match. They all differ in resistance

even turning on the lights dropped the pressure by 1 bar, despite good earths etc! lol

 

why would the pressure drop if wired correct and if you brought a new gauge would come with the sender !

 

because it was a crappy electric one with a sender from a different manufacturer, i didnt know at the time of fitting

hence why i said above he really needs to buy mechanical or a decent electrical one

 

I've got the 2wd so can't use the sandwich plate may just go for all manual gauges. I know you can get a sump plug adapter for the oil temp.

 

my vdo electric one read the same as our workshop mechacical one lol mine has a new sender that screws into were the old one dose with 2 terminals on it one for the light on the dash and one for the gauge as for temp i have again a vdo electric one with a sump plug with a 1/8ntp hole in it that i got from ebay for the sender again works very well!

 

Electric ones can be 100% accurate, after all we all trust the CTS, to read correctly and keep out fuelling right which works on EXACTLY the same principle, ie thermistor.
I like and only use lecky ones due to there being NO way a mechanical oil pipe supply to the gauge can break!!
2wd can be used with sandwich plate AND temp and pressure sender if you want, otherwise just buy suitable extension from existing pressure switch hole.
I have a drilled fitting on my sump for a temp sender, as well as on oil cooler, on the nearside, loads of room there.
If you send me a sump plug I'll drill and tap it 1/8 NPT-27 for you FOC, also got 1/4 NPT-20 size taps, this is the pressure switch size used on the YB, also got 5/16 and 3/8 taps in LEFT hand tap as well as right if anyone needs a adjuster rod making up etc.
tabetha

 

The ones I've been looking at are from demon theives. smiths with electrical senders, don't know what the smith gauges are like. Has anybody used them?

 

google vdo from merlin motersport as i say ive had no troubles with mine and i have an oil pressure oil temp and a 3 bar boost gauge when mine was last set up it was set at 2.6 bar of boost and the vdo gauge sits dead on 2.6 bar the temp gauge readings are realistic and the pressure gauge was as i say the same as our workshop one!

 

Mine comes of where the pressure switch is as I also have this as well, I am probably the only one to have a gauge from a Jaguar MK2 LOL.

Martin