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Re: Re: MGB oil pressure sender

To: rwg1@postoffice3.mail.cornell.edu, british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Re: MGB oil pressure sender
From: bobj@meaddata.com (Robert Jones)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 12:59:48 EDT
From: "Roger Garnett" <rwg1@postoffice3.mail.cornell.edu>

|> > From:          Paul Osborne <paul@ee.rochester.edu>

|> > > and a stupid ELECTRIC
|> > > OIL PRESSURE SENDER!!! (fits 68-72 or so, looks like a small doorknob)
|> > > 
|> > >  None around here anywhere, new or used. All are either in use or
|> > > busted. 
|> >    
|> >    Wade, are you sure you have the right item, or has there 
|> >    been a retrofit of something new? Oil pres. guages have always
|> >    been mechanical. Before the single guage between the spedo and tach.
|> >    it shared the same housing with the temp guage.
|>
|> Bzzzt! Wade is correct- only early B's (63-67) Have a mechanical oil guage.
|> The 68 and up have a oil line going to an electrical sending unit, which is
|> mounted on the fire wall near the heater. The 68-71 sender is highly prone
|> to failure, and are expensive. (ie: Vicky brit- 149.00 !) 
|>
|> 72-80 used a much cheaper switch- (10.95), which may not be compatible with 
|> the 68-71 guage. Scott?
|>
|> Or, the guage for the 72-76 may fit the 68-71- I'm not sure tho.

I believe 72 and up (at least 74 & 75) are mechanical gauges.  The
switch for these is actually just an on/off switch for the low
pressure warning light.  

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Bob



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