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Postby Adydas » Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:47 pm

Woah, Educating.

I can see it now tho a mint DEFI / Apexi set of Oil and water level guage kit.
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Postby Alex B » Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:47 am

Take heed of matts warning with vibrations and the pressior sensor. It was not a fun job using an easy out to get the t peice thred out of the head :lol:
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Postby MrOizo » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:04 am

Adydas wrote:it actually seems like a better way to solve the issue dont it? perhaps you should submit a level guage idea to some top companys.


A top company like Toyota? :)

the JZA70's came with a low oil indicator :) was a float. broke my one so needed a new one :/
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Postby Adydas » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:28 pm

E = extreem.

anyway, can anyone tell me are the fittings for the oil pressure the same? and also can someone tell me if the feed part of the block is any use ( with drastic work to sump ) for temp.

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Postby Stealer Of Souls » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:51 am

I have an alternative solution to using a T...
Use the pressure gauge sender, then buy the Simple Voltage Switch from jaycar and set it up to trigger the light at the right pressures...
Just a thought.
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Postby JamesM » Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:52 pm

sorry to bring this up again.. but my omori oil pressure gauge goes from 1 kg/cm2 up to about 15.. 25psi is about 1.75kg/cm2.. so basically my gague is not going to be very good for indication of if i have low pressure because the actual scale of the gauge is too large.. right?
will this voltage switch your talkking off work very well in my situation lindsay?
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Postby Stealer Of Souls » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:33 am

I can't see any reason why not.
Your gauge may not read below 15psi, but the pressure transducer will. The voltage switch from jaycar should be able to read the output below 15psi. It may be a little bit fiddly to set up initially. But there are ways around everything.

You have my PM anyways.
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