another bloody 4age question

[samlloyd]

Ive stripped all the interior behind the front seats

And bought a couple of gauges just to chuck in to keep an eye on things

Water temp and Oil pressure.

I can see where the sender is for the water temp,

But can someone show me where the sender is for where i would connect the Oil temp to.

can you see it on this pic?


Thanks, (pics of interior soo)

[Xyrath 86]

Its a little round thing next to the oil filter behind all the powersteering/air con shit on my engine.

[KinLoud]

Oil pressure or oil temp?
Oil pressure - In your pic... just below the distributor will be a pressure switch or pressure sender screwed (depends a bit on what car it came out of) into the block, there will be a terminal on it to connect to the oil pressure light or oil pressure gauge.
Oil temperature - No 4age powered cars came out with oil temp gauge as factory.

Ken
Ham
021 408 863

[samlloyd]

Thanks.
Its oil pressure kinloud.

I will go have a tutu tommorow. Hopefully i will be able to complete it, and rip more interior out!

[Caveman]

Should be behind the ps pump under the distributor

[samlloyd]

[rant]

oh fcuck stupid cheap crappy AutoGauge from repco. All fitiments plus a spare accesorys kit didnt fit the thread for the water temp!

Took that back and got refund

And the thread for the oil pressure is going to be way to big for all the fittings supplied with the oil pressure gauge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRR

taking that back for a refund tommorow

What gauges have you people installed on a bluetop 4age so i can buy something that i know will fit!!!

[/rant]

[Ae92typeX]

not that it helps now you have taken back, but you can get adapters

[matt dunn]

that's why the are called aftermarket,

because you have to modify them to fit.

[samlloyd]

ah ok.

where do you buy adapters from?
Is it a bitch or what do get to that oil sender!
Stupid A/C Hoses in the way aswell!

Would electronic oil pressure and oil temp use the same sender?

[trueno_20v]

ah ok.

where do you buy adapters from?
Is it a bitch or what do get to that oil sender!
Stupid A/C Hoses in the way aswell!

Would electronic oil pressure and oil temp use the same sender?

Na i dont think so..

[AE91Sprinter]

no.

You'll want to get a T piece, engineering retailers will sell them, or perhaps repco or the likes.

Aftermarket parts cant fit EVERY car out there, else you'd have a billion fittings come with the part, doubling or tripling the price of it.

Ideally you'll want a triple fitting, to keep the original oil pressure light too - id definitely do it that way, you dont want to have to look at your guage all the time, because realistically by the time you did notice that you had zero pressure, it would be too late.

[Dell'Orto]

If you pay $30 for a gauge, cant expect it to be perfect eh

[samlloyd]

Can anyone point me to gauges that will fit stock into a bluetop? Prefered oil temp and pressure.

If i cant find any ill just do my brakes

[fangsport]

most gauges are designed(read copied) off US manufacturers.there threads are usually BSP or NPT, whereas Jap car often have metric fine threads.

TWL and BNT stock adapter and T fittings for fluid and air lines. piece of cake to install.

[Ae92typeX]

as above for where to go for adapters.
the standard senders quite probably wont work on aftermarket gauges- Ive tried that one before.
if you want standard fitting (water temp/oil pressure), just keep with the standard pressure and temp gauges as found on many 4age'd vehicles.

[samlloyd]

Point in way of standard pressure gauge

[NA Drifter]

I got some electric Trisco oil pressure gauge on my 4AGE. they fit fine. They are like $40 or something... brought it many years ago... hope this help.

[Ae92typeX]

Point in way of standard pressure gauge

aw11's, ae92's for two examples- both have standard gauges (but just bar indicators, not figures).
as NA Drifter says, there are ones which will fit fine- I was more pointing out that you want to fit the sender unit that came with the gauge, not use the factory sender unit for an aftermarket gauge.

[fangsport]

unless the sender and gauge a matched, they generally won't work as a set. take the factory sensors to BNT (from past experience TWL don't always stock metric) and get the appropriate adapter to suit . they are a couple of dollars each, which is a small price to pay for accurate readings.

[samlloyd]

NA drifter, was that a mechanical gauge where you had to run a copper tubing into the gauge?

Does anyone know the thread size of the water temp sender, and the oil temp sender?

Thanks all