Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Guest
Posts: n/a
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.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"Paul Calman" <spam@trap.com> wrote in message
news:3n6rbrF5mtsU1@individual.net...
>
> 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.
> --
> Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California
>
Mine has a plastic pan so I suppose it could be epoxied.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"Paul Calman" <spam@trap.com> wrote in message
news:3n6rbrF5mtsU1@individual.net...
>
> 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.
> --
> Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California
>
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Where's the TV?
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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.
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Where's the TV?
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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.
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Where's the TV?
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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.
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Where's the TV?
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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.
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Does the light interact with the computer in any way?
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E2EC6.BF227852@***.net...
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> .
>> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
>> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
>> Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
>> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E2EC6.BF227852@***.net...
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> .
>> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
>> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
>> Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
>> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Does the light interact with the computer in any way?
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E2EC6.BF227852@***.net...
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> .
>> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
>> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
>> Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
>> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E2EC6.BF227852@***.net...
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> .
>> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
>> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
>> Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
>> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Does the light interact with the computer in any way?
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E2EC6.BF227852@***.net...
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> .
>> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
>> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
>> Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
>> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E2EC6.BF227852@***.net...
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> .
>> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
>> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
>> Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
>> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Does the light interact with the computer in any way?
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E2EC6.BF227852@***.net...
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> .
>> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
>> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
>> Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
>> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
--
..
Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
..
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E2EC6.BF227852@***.net...
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> .
>> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
>> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
>> Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat
>> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Installing engine oil temperature gauge - TJ
Yep, on ships our lives depended on guages
Coasty
"L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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
news:430E4387.3DFDD3AC@***.net...
> 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.
