[Vwdiesel] Oil pressure/temp gauge options

[McCanless, James]

 The Vision series has true back lighting, including the needle and very
popular with the MKIV Jetta/Golf owners. I am not aware of any other
aftermarket gauge that lights the needle from the rear except for the
new Nexus series from Autometer.
http://hp.autometer.com/products/nexus/index.html

Troy

-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]
On Behalf Of Shawn Wright
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:02 AM
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com; diesel-Vanagon at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Oil pressure/temp gauge options

I'm looking at my options for gauges, and am pretty sure I will go with
something like this for my 1.6TD Vanagon conversion:

VDO Vision or Cockpit Black series (any advice - I can get Cockpit
series about 15% cheaper -they appear very similar):
EGT
Oil Pressure
Oil Temp
Boost

The oil senders I'm not sure about. I'd like to keep the dual sender
dynamic oil pressure system intact, so I need the stock switches at head
and oil filter flange. But I also need to add temp and pressure senders.
I could get a dual pole VDO sender for the head, and use the 7psi
warning contact in place of the stock low pressure switch at the head.
That would mean I could place a brass T at the filter flange, and have
stock hi switch & oil temp sender there. Is there any reason to avoid
having a T at the filter flange? ie: should I put the T on the head
instead for some reason, and leave the filter flange with stock switch
only? Does the standard VDO T
(M10x1 thread) seal ok on the VW head/flange? I've had problems with an
old gauge using M10x1 threads leaking because it doesn't have the
shoulder for a sealing washer like the stock switches do.

Any advice/opinions welcome.

Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D
'88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed  (see progress at
http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy


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