Date:         Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:48:22 -0700
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: 2.1 L Oil filler tube needed
Comments: To: camping.elliott@gmail.com
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hi,
you mean how to install the guages ?

pretty basic,
bit unusual, compared to most engines, taping into the oil sender location
between the push rod tubes under the left cylinder head on a waterboxer
engine.
I have two metal line set ups ...one is a steel brake line with fittings.
Need to come out with a pipe or line to mount senders to.  Going to have at
least the old OP Switch, and a pressure sender, ..a golf ball size gizmo to
talk to an electric oil press. gauge..so need to accomdate at least two
sensors there ...old OP sw. and new guage sender.

I have used a grease gun hose to tap into the oil switch location before as
well. Worked well for years actually.

for an oil temp ....I might weld a boss into the bottom of the oil filler
tube, and sender screws into that.  Easy to fab in metal pipe like that.
Might not be 'the perfect or ideal' ' temp sender location, but it's a nice
way to tap into the sump oil without doing anything too weird to the engine.
Rather not tap into the case , not yet anyway.
( There are  ones you can buy that are just a dipstick..
so you have a dipstick with a wire coming off it....kinda of an air-cooled
Bug thing, but I don't like that idea.)

check out the VDO guages on egauges.com




----- Original Message -----
From: "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
To: "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Cc: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: 2.1 L Oil filler tube needed


>
>
> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 14:26 -0700, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>> being able to monitor oil temp and pressure .....knowing those are
>> within
>> reasonable limits, would reduce the stressful feeling of pushing the
>> poor
>> thing up long hot hills, if those #'s stay in a good range.
>
> Scott -- I, too, would like to know how my 1.9 is doing on them long,
> hot, lonely hills. Any chance we can get you to post a how-to for the
> oil pressure and temp monitoring setup? Something the simpler of us
> could follow?
>
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
>
>
>