[FC] Special Oil Filter Bolt for Sender

James Davis corvanatics@corvair.org
Tue Feb 10 00:03:01 2004


Use a soft copper washer instead of the fiber one on the oil filter.
Jim Davis

At 03:48 AM 2/10/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>Hey everybody:
>
>I have one of those special oil filter bolts that allow a sender for a 
>gauge to be threaded into it.
>
>I have a brass T with the oil pressure gauge sender and the oil pressure 
>switch in it.  The temp sender is in the stock oil pressure switch location.
>
>Anyway, the bolt does not ground to anything when it is installed.
>Therefore, the senders will not function.  I came up with a quickie 
>temporary solution by taking a piece of galvanized steel wire and wrapping 
>one end around the base of the T and the other end around the fuel pump 
>block-off bolt.
>
>Does anyone have a more professional looking solution to this?
>
>Charles