RE: Oil Temp Sender

[glen powell <gpowell@acacianet.com>]

     The oil temp sender goes in place of the bolt that holds in the oil 
     pressure release spring on the oil pump. You need to get your hands on 
     a temp sender, take out the bolt that holds in the oil pressure 
     release spring and put the sender in in place of the bolt. I may have 
     an extra sender at home I can check if your interested?

OK, This makes sense, I used the oil filter block from the 83 and not the one
off the 85. Must be the oil temp sender is still hangin off the oil filter block on
the 85 engine that came out. Sounds like a simple deal to swap it onto the
83 oil filter block. THANKS Mike!
     
     The rest of this is a bit of guess work but here goes anyway :) 
     
     I'm guessing you may have problems I think the stock '83 block switch 
     just shorts to GND when there is no oil pressure. Yours may be tied 
     high or open circuit? 

Yep, open circuit as there is presently no oil press idiot light/buzzer sender/switch,
I replaced it with the sender for the gauge.
Sounds like another easy fix. I think I'll try the 4k 'dual sender' that another lister
mentioned.

To work properly you need a wire jumper in the 
     relay box, this was true for all Canadian spec '83 ur-qs. This is 
     really hoky and when I bought my '83 it had a relay that did SFA. I 
     can check tonight and tell you exactly how the wire jumper goes? I 
     believe this is undocumented?  
     
     I'd get the above working first with the original low pressure switch 
     and then look at the guage problem. 

Gauge & sender works OK. Just the oil press idiot light is an issue here
and I think my question on this has been answered.

THANKS!

-glen