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.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.
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!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.