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Marcp
06-19-2008, 07:22 PM
My friends given me a set of Autotech guages, with the holder. I have oil pressure, water temp and volts. They are electrical.

Volts is easy, but where can I put the oil pressure sender, and the water temp sender? My friends 325 had convenient places already tapped for senders to go, but my M42 doesnt seem to have anything, so looks like its T peices and tapping holes. Still need to buy the senders, as he didnt give me them.

Thanks!

Marcp
06-23-2008, 06:11 PM
Spent time looking today, can find places to tap for water... but non for oil :(

Wizard
06-23-2008, 08:48 PM
you could probably just use a tee at the factory oil pressure switch located on the oil filter housing.

ak96ss
06-23-2008, 08:51 PM
I used a y-block from gaugeman.com (which no longer exists) to tap at the existing oil pressure sender, which is at the inboard base of the oil filter canister.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/2006TopBanana/RpHhRslIQ8I/AAAAAAAADG0/3_aRwlG8F3s/s800/p3130143.jpg

You may be able to have one made... somewhere... Sorry, that's probably not a lot of help, is it? :(

Marcp
07-05-2008, 11:00 AM
No, that helped, thanks!

Now I know what im looking for, I can go about sorting it.

Thanks!

Wizard
07-05-2008, 04:09 PM
You would have to find the right size but something like this should work:

http://www.hoseandfittings.com/images/departments/images/HF1225P.jpg

My Audi factory setup used something like this for the Oil pressure and Oil Temp gauges.


ak96ss:That is a sweet setup....To bad that company is out of biz...