I lost one engine with a broken oil guage line and was bad. Then the line
broke at the dash end
and filled the cabin and my shoes with hot oil and that was worse. Then when
testing the line it popped off
the guage and shot me in the eyes and that was enough.
I replaced the guage with an electric unit. That means that I have a steel
bodied sender screwed into the oil
gallery where the old pipe came out. Then it is just a single wire going up
to the new 2 1/8" guage. Malheuresement
it is not a Smiths guage, but I hope to find a nice electric Smiths from a
Jag. But now I am protected from having a
personalised oil heating system in the cabin.
Mark Hooper
mhooper@pixelsystems.com
-----Original Message-----
From: vitesse@juno.com <vitesse@juno.com>
To: msecrest@erols.com <msecrest@erols.com>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: December 17, 1998 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: TR6: Fun w/oil gauge feed
>
>Hi Martin,
>
>Reference your broken plastic line...I tried to replace the plastic line
>on the barbed fitting when mine broke after a rebuild in '73. I also was
>not able to get it to go back on.
>
>I replace it with copper. I got all the parts I needed from a plumbing
>supply house, ( that was long before there was a Home Depot ). You can
>get all parts necessary at the Depot or similar type place. I have
>since put this type arrangement on all Triumphs I've gotten, whether I
>noticed a problem or not. It will cost you a few points in concours, a
>few dollars, and a couple of hours....it will save you having to clean
>the engine bay, driveway, or worse base scenario..the interior if the
>line breaks inside the car....been there....done that....and that oil is
>HOT on your leg!
>
>A few things I've leaned though.....At first I came out of the block with
>an elbow, and went straight through the firewall and to the gauge. This
>lasted a few years but over time with the block movement on the motor
>mounts, the copper line broke at the block. I remember seeing some old
>car with the copper line in a coil coming off the block. I did that, 2
>or 3 coils to allow for movement and I also put a fitting at the point
>where it goes through the block to make sure it doesn't chaff. I have
>had that on my 250 since '84 and have not had a problem since.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Hugh R. McAleer
>Jonesboro, GA
>
>
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