Hi, I bought from a Chevy part dealer in USA a rebuild oil gauge. I assemble the gauge to the oil line, everything works well, I srewed the line a little bit so no oil will leak and what happend, the nut on the back of the oil gauge broke off. At this work I saw the two cables hanging around. I look where this cables comming from, I notice that they where originally fixed to the ignition lock. I disambled the ignition lock from the dash board and saw that one of the lash which is riveted the copper pin of back of the lock is going gone from the copper pin. I took a small strainer and tried to fix to copper pin to the lash. What happens, the copper pin sank into the plastic part on the back of the lock. Phantastic!!!!!!!!!! I hate worse quality! Cheap is to expensive! Wolfgang
You have to be VERY careful when tightening the oil pressure guage. I have popped my share of them. Still leaks a little bit, just a small turn....pop. You HAVE to hold the square part when tightening the line. If you tighten the line too much, the whole thing WILL pop off of the compression fitting. Is your guage 60# or 30 #? I have a 30# new I cannot use, I'll send you for what I paid....$50, otherwise I have to send it back. Let me know, Russ
Why do you need a 60 psi gauge?. I take my old 30psi gauge and it work's very fine with my new engine. If the truck still standing and the engine is running i have 20psi, if i drive i have 51psi and the gauge goes to the right. It's OK for me. Hows anybody said: if i see the gauge on the right side i have oil pressure if not i have to stop.
30 psi oil gauge Hello Volker, my truck had a 30psi gauge and it worked fine. But I don't know what happend after we had run the engine a few times the instrument stopped working and the pointer stopped just right in the middle of the scale. So I thought maybe there was too much pressure so the gauge would be damaged. After I had disassambled the hole instrument I saw the the tube on the rear side of the gauge have a kink. What happend... Now I have two damaged gauges, fine! Wolfgang
Reason of damaged oil gauge Now I take a look why the gauge which I bought get damaged. The worker who build the gauge bored a little bit to deep, so the square nut at the rear of the instrument hasn't to a little material. I took a second look to the old one and I detect that the nut was original soldered on the plate where the nut is fixed. The new part hasn't a soldered point. What do we learn, original parts have had a better quality! I hope I can repair the new gauge. Wolfgang
