Extra oil port
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Extra oil port
I recently installed a sr5 cluster in my 89 2wd , and after 12 years of watching the idiot light going off, I found that I miss having it. My work day starts before daylight and having the light was handy when doing the mourning warm up. I have noticed that there is a plug in the center of the motor mount in line with the oil sender .My question is has anyone tried hooking a oil gauge to this port. The oil pressure sending unit will thread into the hole . This might be a cheaper way to add a mechanical gauge or idiot light . When time allows I plan to try checking to see if it is an oil port and if has pressure at it. So far I have been been experimenting on a motor that has been setting for years and any oil that was there is long gone.
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Curiosity got the best of me , I pulled the plug out of my dd and oil came out , but the hose on my pieced togather oil pressure gauge, wouldn't bend enough to do a oil pressure test.
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They are both oil plugs and travel through the same oil passage and both the same thread as the oil pressure switch so all you need to do is buy a mechanical universal oil pressure gauge from you favorite auto parts store and run straight into either of the two ports. You could even installed a 90 degree elbow so the clear oil pressure line won't kink on you if our prefer.
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On my truck I plan to rig up a stand alone light and use the check engine socket on the cluster. The main thing needed is a bulb socket with pig tails, that will plug into that place on the cluster. Since my truck doesn't have a ecm it is not used anway.
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