Oil temp sender location

[SteveR1979]

Hi All,

I have an oil temp gauge, and a sender ready to fit.

I can't for the life of me work out where to put the sender.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[bobfather]

Avoid putting it on the sump, the temperature readings are low there due to low oil movement and air cooling. There's a port near the filter on the driver's side that picks up oil leaving the filter on its way to the rockers. It's the port used for retrofitting oil coolers. I have photos on my PC but I'm not home currently

[bobfather]

Here it is

[SteveR1979]

bobfather said:

Here it is

Ahhhh

So you have drilled and tapped the original bolt??

I hadn't thought of that.

Thanks!!

[bobfather]

No, I bought a reducer socket off eBay to replace the existing tapered plug

[SteveR1979]

bobfather said:

No, I bought a reducer socket off eBay to replace the existing tapered plug

I don't suppose you have the seller or a link do you?
I can't find any tapered type reducers.

[bobfather]

Too long ago, sorry. I got the plug thread size by searching for Chimaera oil cooler topics

[Pink_Floyd]

That picture is mine, and yes I did get the original plug drilled and tapped to fit the sender. It worked really well.

[Zener]

I drilled an oil cooler blank bung and fitted my oil pressure sender to this below the oil lamp switch as I wanted to monitor post oil filter true pressures, the one below crankshaft pulley see's pre filter oil pressure , and this dont matter for oil temp monitoring

[bobfather]

You need one of these, much easier than drilling and tapping

NPT Reducer

[SteveR1979]

Thanks people

Food for thought!