Pre-serp 4.0 1994 Oil Pressure sender - screw in???

[Wolvesboy]

Hi All,

This oil pressure sender was bought online (earth added) about 6 months ago - the gauge was jumping all over the place so removed the sender to physically show local motor factors to get another one. No luck and I tried to re attach it so I could still drive the car. Upon tightening it the nut came off with the sender! I thought the nut was attached to the housing but photo 2 does not show any weld/ glue etc! I am actually thinking that the sender must have been just hanging there since I removed the original and put this new one in.
Upon closer inspection of photo 2 there does not seem to be any screw threads either! WTF!

Is this normal? Looks like I need to remove the housing and tap a thread to attach the crap sender again. Anyone else encountered this issue or have any better ideas?

Thanks.

[Belle427]

Looks like something has sheared off in the existing port, hard to tell.

[Adrian@]

You have stripped and broken TVR part number N0069. (added a link to a steel one to replace the brass version). A@
https://powersperformance.co.uk/store/slug/n0069/

Edited by Adrian@ on Wednesday 5th October 13:30

[Wolvesboy]

Thanks Adrian & Belle427 - That makes perfect sense. Awesome stuff.
No guesses for what I am up to tomorrow!

[TwinKam]

Handy! ...good sized hole bang in the centre, so no drilling necessary, no swarf to worry about. Even a crappy old tapered 'Eezy-Out' should have that out in a trice. (job now cursed...)

[Zener]

TwinKam said:

Handy! ...good sized hole bang in the centre, so no drilling necessary, no swarf to worry about. Even a crappy old tapered 'Eezy-Out' should have that out in a trice. (job now cursed...)

Exactly this above ^