Adding Oil Pressure and Oil Temp Gauge...

poreilly101

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• Jun 30, 2019

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Hi all,

With the restore of the Landrover 110 coming to an end, I wanted to add a Oil Pressure and Oil Temp Gauge. The issue I had I had no where to tap into the engine.

I got the below manifold made with a high pressure pipe from the engine where the Oil Switch was located. This will in return bolt onto the bulkhead. I'm hoping the reading from the switches will be correct. Has anyone tried similar?

 

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marjon

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• Jun 30, 2019

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I think for pressure reading you will be ok.
But the temp will not as it’s not in a flow of moving oil.

Do you have an oil cooler?

Have a look on here this outfit does lots of useful adaptors

https://www.steveparkers.com/


J

 

poreilly101

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• Jun 30, 2019

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marjon said:

I think for pressure reading you will be ok.
But the temp will not as it’s not in a flow of moving oil.

Do you have an oil cooler?

Have a look on here this outfit does lots of useful adaptors

https://www.steveparkers.com/


J

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I do have an oil cooler fitted to the engine. I did think about that with the oil flow, It may be a problem.

 

marjon

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• Jun 30, 2019

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poreilly101 said:

I do have an oil cooler fitted to the engine. I did think about that with the oil flow, It may be a problem.

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I am sure a lot of guys here have done it and will supply pics of what you need.

J

 

poreilly101

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• Jun 30, 2019

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marjon said:

I am sure a lot of guys here have done it and will supply pics of what you need.

J

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And her was I loving my manifold... The temp gauge is not a must have, more of a nice to have

 

zeaphod

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• Jun 30, 2019

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Make sure there's room for your lovely manifold before you change anything, there's not much space between where the existing switch comes out and the wing - on a 200TDi anyway. I fitted a doubler to take the sender for a Durite electric pressure gauge. Simple enough job - although the older senders can be an and odd non metric size and so you need an odd sized spanner.