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Nice sunny day in NY yesterday, pushing the 383 along at 3000 grand and noticed no reading on my oil pressure gauge...not a good feeling...pulled over to check it out and noticed the lead to the sending unit came loose! Fired her back up and kept cruising...I am always fixated on those damn gauges, especially oil and temp...you know these cars can malfunction....seems like we didnt care when we were kids.

Those electronic gauges can cause a coronary can't they! I would feel much better if I had a real oil pressure gauge in my car, but for now, the reg. gauge will have to do.

Yeh, back then it was a knock, smoke, or loss of power that got our attention.

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Rizrtse wrote:Nice sunny day in NY yesterday, pushing the 383 along at 3000 grand and noticed no reading on my oil pressure gauge...not a good feeling...pulled over to check it out and noticed the lead to the sending unit came loose! Fired her back up and kept cruising...I am always fixated on those damn gauges, especially oil and temp...you know these cars can malfunction....seems like we didnt care when we were kids.

BTW, they make a brass tee that you can use a mechanical pressure gauge and use your stock oil sending unit so you can monitor both. Which is what I have done in this pic, it monitors the oil pressure mechanically and the O.E.M. pressure gauge is also seen, or if you have the "idiot light" you can have the "light" feature as well.

Those truck shifters were cool, not quick shifting, but cool none-the-less.

This tee fitting. I assume you just pull the stock sending unit and put the tee in its place, then put the sending unit on one side of the tee with the gauge s.u. on the other side of the tee.

fal308 wrote:Those truck shifters were cool, not quick shifting, but cool none-the-less.

This tee fitting. I assume you just pull the stock sending unit and put the tee in its place, then put the sending unit on one side of the tee with the gauge s.u. on the other side of the tee.

Yes, Fal thats correct. I got mine at Lowes, the brass fitting. Yeah, the shifter is of course a top loader design, New Process 435 Cast iron beast. My diesel is a New Venture 5600 6-speed, both are PTO capable as well. The diesel is pretty fast but the older NP 435 is Slow shifting but both are brutally tough!

Not sure if this applies to all MoPar V8s because I have never looked but on the back of my 440 there are actually TWO tapped holes for oil pressure. One is blanked off with a pipe plug by the factory. So you could use that rather than a "Tee".

Remember those damned plugs Dave?

airfuelEddie wrote:Remember those damned plugs Dave?

No. Remind me?

When MFCLM started his freshly built 440 and wanted to drain the block? That plug. You said you couldnt get yours out no matter how hard you tried. Is this the style plug you were refering to at the back of the block?

Ah!

Well there is a big difference between getting out a plug from the water jacket and getting one out from the oil galley. No chance of corrosion there. They come out real easy.

Cool!