<VV> Whats the best place to mount oil pressure sender

Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:59:48 -0400

Why not add to the stock oil pressure sender (idiot light) on the stock oil filter mount? Clark's sells adapters that allow you to use both the gauge and the 
idiot light from this same location.

Bill

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:50:25 -0400, Anil Mittal wrote:

>Hi!

>  I have a 66 140/PG with AC. The car also has a spin on oil filter
>adaptor on it which I bought from Clark's 7 or 8 years ago. I have an
>oil pressure guage on my car. Originally I had the sender mounted in
>a hole tapped into the stock oil filter mount where the oil filter
>would bolt to if I did not have AC. Well, the other night I was
>replacing the stock type oil pressure switch in the car and I must
>have over tightened the new once because I cracked teh casting it
>screwed into. I got a new casting to install and drilled and taped it
>for the oil pressure sender. I then realized that the angle at which
>I drilled and tapped the hole was not correct and that the sender
>would not fit. I now got another casting and was wondering if there
>is a better location to mount the oil pressure sender? On some peice
>which is easier to remove from the engine like the 90 degree adaptor?
>Is there some sort of replacement bolt for the spin on adaptor
>similar to an AdaptABolt? Any help would be appreciated it. Thank you!

>Anil
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