Installing Gauges, Oil Pressure, Water Temp troubles Options

[jcbass7]

Searched and couldn't find what i needed.. (swap related so i posted here, sorry if it should be in the interior/elec)

I'm installing an oil pressure gauge and a water temp gauge..

they are both electric and were made by prosport.

My questions are... do i need to tap into things for the probes/senders or are there stock places i can bolt these into? Or..... should i tap the wires off of the stock sensors?

This post has been edited by jcbass7: Dec 23, 2006 - 4:40 PM

[jcbass7]

ok so i thought it was too xpensive to buy one of the radiator hose pieces to mount my temp sensor for the water temp gauge. So i went to home depot, bought a 3 inch long peice of 1inch pipe from the plumbing department. Its the kind that is threaded on both ends. Then i went home and found out what size tap i needed and borrowed a friends taps and drilled a hole and tapped the correct threads in.

Then i screwed my temp gauge in, and inserted the whole thing into my top radiator hose

total cost: 94 cents
total time: 30 minutes give or take



For the oil pressure gauge im just going to suck it up and buy the tuner toy piece, unless i can get clever and figure out some cheap effective way..

[presure2]

ok so i thought it was too xpensive to buy one of the radiator hose pieces to mount my temp sensor for the water temp gauge. So i went to home depot, bought a 3 inch long peice of 1inch pipe from the plumbing department. Its the kind that is threaded on both ends. Then i went home and found out what size tap i needed and borrowed a friends taps and drilled a hole and tapped the correct threads in.

Then i screwed my temp gauge in, and inserted the whole thing into my top radiator hose

total cost: 94 cents
total time: 30 minutes give or take



For the oil pressure gauge im just going to suck it up and buy the tuner toy piece, unless i can get clever and figure out some cheap effective way..

whatever gets the job done.
for the oil pressure gauge, DO NOT cheap out and use some cheap brass fitting. brass is soft, and will crack and split over time...spraying oil all over your engine...and if your not lucky..while your driving...BOOM