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Re: Oil gauge line on the engine

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Oil gauge line on the engine
From: RacerY@comcast.net
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:37:11 +0000
I thought that line
was BPT (British pipe taper),
which can be had from the Brit and racepart suppliers...

I chopped off the block fitting on mine and
brazed on an AN -4 fitting, and then used AN parts...

Toby

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Keith0alan@aol.com
> Hello all,
>  
>     The R16 engine I just rebuilt had a leaky oil line.  The flexible one 
> that screws into the block and goes toward the oil gauge. These  seem to have 
> gotten kind of pricey. I took a couple of old leaky hoses to my  local hose 
> store. They salvaged the unobtanium fittings and rebuilt them with  teflon 
>tube 




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