Oil gauges

Luke · Post by **Luke** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:12 pm

My oil temp gauge is a single guage with a needle and no numbers, with an oil pressure lamp at the bottom. Do you think I'd be able to simply swap in a later combined oil temp and pressure gauge (i.e. 2 needles) or do i need to make a load of changes?

Gary71 · Post by **Gary71** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:47 pm

You'd need to fit a pressure sender to the engine rather than just a low pressure switch, but I believe the wiring is the same. With a sender you get a precise change in resistance and hence it can drive the meter, the light just runs off the low pressure switch which is on/off.

I used to run just a low pressure switch as a quick fix until I got around to buying a replacement sender for my '72. All this does is put the gauge at full scale once the minimum pressure is reached.

Running with a working pressure gauge will increase your paranoia! You'll watch it like a hawk and those occasional 1mm downward fluctuations when running at constant high speed will make you heart stop every time!

MdR · Post by **MdR** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:18 pm

Gary71 wrote:Running with a working pressure gauge will increase your paranoia! You'll watch it like a hawk and those occasional 1mm downward fluctuations when running at constant high speed will make you heart stop every time!

Yup! I try to ingore mine & concentrate on where I'm going, at high speed my SWB has a tendancy to be a bit 'floaty'. Knowing my oil is sloshing about & being squeezed is the least of my worries

Gary71 · Post by **Gary71** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:19 pm

Luke have you seen this?

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Luke · Post by **Luke** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:30 pm

thanks for the heads up Gary, I've added it to my watch list