Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
08-25-2005, 06:18 PM
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Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
You would probably want to braze that on to a steel pan.
Mine has a plastic pan so I suppose it could be epoxied.
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"Paul Calman" <spam@trap.com> wrote in message
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> Or do you mean to
>> use the pan surface temperature rather than the oil itself?
>
> Yup. On a thin steel pan the difference in temp would be negligable.
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Mine has a plastic pan so I suppose it could be epoxied.
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"Paul Calman" <spam@trap.com> wrote in message
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> Or do you mean to
>> use the pan surface temperature rather than the oil itself?
>
> Yup. On a thin steel pan the difference in temp would be negligable.
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08-25-2005, 06:28 PM
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
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> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.
08-25-2005, 06:28 PM
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Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.
08-25-2005, 06:28 PM
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.
08-25-2005, 06:28 PM
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.
08-25-2005, 06:29 PM
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Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Does the light interact with the computer in any way?
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> Not if you sh*t can the idiot light crap.
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> Billy Ray wrote:
>>
>> Then he would be back to using a tee again which he wants to avoid.
>>
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> Not if you sh*t can the idiot light crap.
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> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Billy Ray wrote:
>>
>> Then he would be back to using a tee again which he wants to avoid.
>>
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08-25-2005, 06:29 PM
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Does the light interact with the computer in any way?
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> Not if you sh*t can the idiot light crap.
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> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Billy Ray wrote:
>>
>> Then he would be back to using a tee again which he wants to avoid.
>>
>> --
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> Not if you sh*t can the idiot light crap.
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> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Billy Ray wrote:
>>
>> Then he would be back to using a tee again which he wants to avoid.
>>
>> --
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> Not if you sh*t can the idiot light crap.
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Billy Ray wrote:
>>
>> Then he would be back to using a tee again which he wants to avoid.
>>
>> --
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> Not if you sh*t can the idiot light crap.
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Billy Ray wrote:
>>
>> Then he would be back to using a tee again which he wants to avoid.
>>
>> --
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08-25-2005, 06:29 PM
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Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
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> Not if you sh*t can the idiot light crap.
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Billy Ray wrote:
>>
>> Then he would be back to using a tee again which he wants to avoid.
>>
>> --
>> .
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> Not if you sh*t can the idiot light crap.
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> Billy Ray wrote:
>>
>> Then he would be back to using a tee again which he wants to avoid.
>>
>> --
>> .
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08-25-2005, 06:43 PM
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Yep, on ships our lives depended on guages
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"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.
Coasty
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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> I think it's part of the dumbing down of America, with our trade
> deficit we'll soon have a third world economy, anyway. I haven't got
> into a tractor in nearly ten years, but there my load depended on me
> reading every gauge from the pyrometer to one of the driver
> temperatures: http://www.----------.com/kenworthdash.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Coasty wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of idiot lights, I recently found out Ford on all their trucks
>> for
>> the past 20 years does not have a true oil pressure gauge. I was
>> listening
>> ot Goss's Garage and Pat said that the oil pressure guage in Ford trucks
>> is
>> a pointer idiot light and has been because the bean counters proofed that
>> it
>> was less costly to do so. So I went to my neighbor and asked to do a
>> test
>> and found out that the oil sending unit is a switch to ground. We even
>> measured the resistance from a cold start no change, them we used a probe
>> hooked to th + side of the battery and it light. Damn Ford has been
>> fooling
>> us for a ling time. Pat was also saying that Ford was not going to
>> change
>> because there was no value in doing so.