[Tigers] Oil Pressure Gauge Fitting

[Sandy Ganz]

I was poking through one of my catalogs late last night (Wife out of town) and found what looks to be the the correct fitting. I think the 1/8 Pipe would work, but this is what looks to be the right part and eliminates one more adapter. So -3 hose right to the gauge. The fittings are slighlty different then standard BSP threaded as the back if the gauge has a flat sealing surface which seems to be Smith/Jaeger standard. It's not much more cost then the adapter and a hose end so this looks to be problem solved. I was pretty sure someone had some magic part, I just can't imagine running that plastic tubing in a race car...

I'm guessing it is a Goodridge part, but here is the link from pegasus racing for those interested -

http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/productselection.asp?Product=3268

I'll get a couple and check it out. Looks right.

Thanks again for the other solutions as well.

Sandy


----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Hall <modtiger at comcast.net>
To: Sandy Ganz <sganz at pacbell.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2008 8:56:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Oil Pressure Gauge Fitting

At 11:04 PM 3/5/2008, you wrote:

Tom, just looking at the standard AN fittings and they have the 1/8" pipe to -3 and -4 females, so as long as it gets tight and doesn't leak looks like simple solution. The AN's are easier to order from summit racing, and about 12 bucks from aeroquip so the hack of pipe thread on it hopefully will be the magic!

You can also try placing a small o-ring in the fitting to see if it bottoms on the oil pressure gage, even if you had to shorten the face of the fitting to make that occur.  That and some Loctite would give you a weep proof seal.


Tom Hall
ModTiger Engineering LLC
www.tigerengineering.net