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Have any of you installed a set of these gauges?. I would like to know how my little motor is doing so I'm looking into installing a water temp, oil press. and volts gauges.
I've never done this before and need to know where to attach the sending units.
Can you help?. :lol:
Voltage connects to the positive on the alternator...
Oil pressure you need a sandwich plate to pull a feed from (since we don't have any factory ones)
Water temp... what does the probe look like? I'm not sure of a good place to put it off the top of my head...
for the oil pressure you normally just drill a hole in the pan, and then tap it for a fiting. run your hose from there
The pan isn't pressurized by the pump, it is by blow-by. That's not an accurate place to put it at all...
never mind i was thinking of oil temp, i have seen my friend install his that way.
anyways here is a pretty good artical about installing a oil pressure gauge.
http://www.grandprix.net/upgrades/oilgauge.html
Thanks!. :D
Maybe these diagrams might help???
http://chevy.mrmax.dp.ua/EN/GMDE_TIS_START.html
for the oil pressure you could also get a "T" fitting off the factory oil pressure sending unit which is the little thing down and to the side of your oil filter.
Oil pan = oil tem
Volt - alternator or even battery
Water - depends on the gauge, probably just tap a water line like your heater feed or throttle body heater, etc..
I have an Optra and recently installed the AEM Digital Water Temp gauge. Works great, very fast response and accurate.
Link to the gauge: http://aempower.com/ViewCategory.aspx?CategoryID=76
Some pics of the install (installed into the thermostat housing):
The temp sender:
http://i8.tinypic.com/6o1ux45.jpg
Drilled and threaded hole into the t-stat housing:
http://i15.tinypic.com/6onczs7.jpg
Housing ready to go back on:
http://i11.tinypic.com/6u4zrz7.jpg
Very nice, thanks!. :D
exist3nce nice job man, lets see some pics of that optra :)
All the performance related pics and everything since day 1 is in this thread at Daewootech.comQuote:
Originally Posted by shapinoweno
http://www.daewootech.com/forum/viewtop ... c&start=60
Yeah thats Awesome!!!!
I recently installed Oil, Volt, and Temp Guages and the Temp guage was a pain, but I grabbed a buddy of mine and we got it done...We got creative tapping one of my hoses and this is what we came up with, and everything works well, so, Tomorrow is the "Make it look nice again" day, but this is what I've got right now...
http://s186.photobucket.com/albums/x154 ... Guages.flv
:)
(I just hooked my oil guage up to my oil sending unit *really I unscrewed the sending unit and screwed the copper hosing, etc in its place*, my Volt meter to the battery, and the Water Temp Guage went to my Lower Radiator Hose.)
sweet
I would also like to install a manual temp gauge, any other option then drilling and taping the thermostat housing ? I haven't looked yet myself, I just thought it might be quicker to ask first ?