FOR SALE Original hot oil sensor *BULK BUY*

Ok that makes a lot of sense, how simple is it to fit an oil pressure gauge and can we get one that fits where the clock should go in the instrument panel.

 

Easy enough, slightly more fiddly with T4. Get dual sender screws in where the pressure switch fits, T4 need an extended one. One connection is for the guage, other for your normal light feed.
Guages tend to be smaller, an 80mm dial in the dash might be a bit overkill. I hung mine under dash just where the steering wheel spoke mostly hides it so I have to physically move a bit to see it. I only look if I'm hacking along on the edge of sensibleness. Then I drive to the guages. Otherwise I ignore them. If I had a standard engine I wouldn't have gauges guages I keep speeling this wird rong.

 

Running lean cooks the heads not the oil.

I don't get how you're supposed to trust this. When it starts to flicker what do you trust? Do you think its because your oil temp is getting too high, or because your oil pressure has fallen. I read this on the other thread.

If I'm reading it right it seems you have this thing flickering, you keep driving but at a lower speed so the engine cools down, in the hope that it stops flickering. What if the oil light is flickering because the oil pressure has fallen? You keep driving, only slower, fingers crossed that it will stop flickering. But it doesn't and you end up with a motor like @jonbott. FUBAR

 

I got my brass fitting from demon tweeks to enable the fitting of the dual post sender on a type 4, needed because the sender is too big a diameter to fit through the tinware

 

Quite so, it could give you false confidence IMO + make driving the van a misery when it's probably just fine.
Running lean also heats the oil Joker. Most of the heat in the oil comes from the heads. There shouldn't be any frictional heat unless you have no oil.

 

Ok, I stand corrected. Well I'm sat down actually but you know what I mean

 

107* isn't hot in a bus. It's normal. The oil light will likely be on all the time.

 

The figure is actually 225deg c as it says on the website.

 

Have you got any links or part numbers for it Joker?
Also are there any accuracy issues with certain types of gayges @zed

 

yea its been rebuilt but its a bit rough and smells oily,must be barrells/heads now

 

Accuracy of the gaijes isn't not important as you'll get used to where it sits. It'll be high when cold, then settle down when warm at say 40 psi where it will stay unless the engine slows to tickover speed. You won't overheat unless it's speed related cruising so you'll see it sit in the same place all the time. Simply put, if it drops to say 30-35 you're going too fast but you haven't damaged anything. Slow down a bit, the oil cools and the pressure soon pops back up to 40.

 

Right I'm going to get a pressure gwayge then so apparently I need to find an extension for the switch as well.

@icepug I'm going to leave the temp sensor and do the pressure thing instead mate.

 

I'm with @zed on this one... A flickering light would do my nut in!!

No offence to the OPs group purchase idea though!!


As @Joker mentioned, technically head temp is the one you need to be more aware of, as running lean will spike the head temps... this is where valve seat regression occurs, or the seat falls out, or the valve stem stretches, then snaps, and the head of the valve punches a nasty big hole through the top of the piston!!

For a general worry gauge, then I prefer the oil temp gauge, but it has to be fitted in the oil flow, and not in the sump... sump temps increase when stationary!!


But we'll be here for hours discussing the ins and outs of engines, oil grades and temps, and what's the best worry gauge to have

 

You certainly would have . Poor man's oil temp test: take a rocker cover off and sniff. Oily smell = ok, burnt chip oil smell and sticky deposits = not so good.

 

@sANDYbAY I have removed you off the list. Thanks for everyones input but I think your all missing the point. Its a cheap, easy to install method of knowing if your engine is hot. Thats it. If I wanted to go through the hassle of fitting gauges trust me I would but I don't. I want something thats easy and doesn't effect the look of the bus. So if anyone else would like one of these by all means let me know and I will add you too the list.

 

They are very cheap. Nothing ventured, nothing gained? I have one a customer has asked me to install for his new 1776. It's still in the packet and I'm stroking my beard thoughtfully at the mo.

 

Hi Joker.Really interested in getting one of these as I have the gauges and sensor but my made up extension began to leak oil.Been on Demon Tweaks and cannot find one.Help please

 

This is the extension T-Piece kit I fitted to my Type 4. It's dead easy to fit and works a treat.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/140737260515?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

 

I like the sound of these, could you pop me down for a type 1 please.

I like simplicity and I like low cost ventures - I will like both much more when my bus is finally rolling around the country taking me and the family to tranquil hideaways, rather than sitting in a workshop.