today my oil pressure gauge turned up from the bay. it came with a sender but it was too big as the scooby ones are tiny. im awating a few gaskits etc from the stealers so cant start my car at the moment. Question i have is, the orig sensor/sender on the engine has a wire on top of it which turns the light on on the dash when there is low oil/low pressure etc. The gauge has 1 wire that goes to the sender supplied which has a bit for you to connect the gauge wire and the OEM wire too. so theoreticly, if t attach the gauge wire to the OEM sensor/sender it should make the gauge work right?

Some one explane why this would or not work please.

thanks.

 

nope, the sensor is matched to the gauge, you can get a re-locater kit, ive seen it somewhere

Rob

 

The OE sensor is a sprung switch, once oil pressure drops the switch closes and the light comes on. The sender for the gauge is a variable resistor, so as the oil pressure changes so does the resistance of the sensor allowing the gauge to display the pressure.

Re-locator kits can be found on the bay but I got mine from Demon Tweeks.

 

Scoobyparts Ltd OIL PRESSURE & OIL TEMPERATURE GAUGE FITTING KIT

 

thought so... thanks peeps!