Oil/Water pressure gauges

I'm wanting to fit a couple of discrete gauges to keep an eye on things. Any tips on where is the best place to tap into the oil and water system on a 96 3.9 V8? Any recommendations for gauge? Ideally a tiny digital readout would do as I don't want it to look like an F16.

Cheers
Ritchie

Have you got room to the right of the dash panel, like on the 200tdi?

was goin' tae suggest one of these...
MUD Defender Console

or this....
MUDSTUFF.CO.UK - Mudpod - Products - Have you got MUD? - Land Rover Solutions

That is prob a bit too in yer face for what i'm after i think? I'm more trying to find out an easy way to plumb them in, does anyone know an easy place to take off a feed for the senders?

I recall reading something about a particular point to check the oil pressure and thought this would be ideal but can't remember where now.


Ideally i'd like the feeds to be completely independent of the normal senders so will hopefully give early warnings of any potential problems.

I have a gap between the dash binnacle and the a pillar if this is what you mean? My dash is similar to the one in the piccies kindly posted by Buster.

Ritch said:

That is prob a bit too in yer face for what i'm after i think? I'm more trying to find out an easy way to plumb them in, does anyone know an easy place to take off a feed for the senders?

I recall reading something about a particular point to check the oil pressure and thought this would be ideal but can't remember where now.


Ideally i'd like the feeds to be completely independent of the normal senders so will hopefully give early warnings of any potential problems.

I have a gap between the dash binnacle and the a pillar if this is what you mean? My dash is similar to the one in the piccies kindly posted by Buster.

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You can buy a special adaptor which fits into the oiltemp sender hole in the engine block. and allows you to fit both senders to it.

Ritch said:

That is prob a bit too in yer face for what i'm after i think? I'm more trying to find out an easy way to plumb them in, does anyone know an easy place to take off a feed for the senders?

I recall reading something about a particular point to check the oil pressure and thought this would be ideal but can't remember where now.


Ideally i'd like the feeds to be completely independent of the normal senders so will hopefully give early warnings of any potential problems.

I have a gap between the dash binnacle and the a pillar if this is what you mean? My dash is similar to the one in the piccies kindly posted by Buster.

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Yes that is where I ment, something like a bracket with holes in for the gauges screwed to the side of the binnacle.

Ritch said:

That is prob a bit too in yer face for what i'm after i think? I'm more trying to find out an easy way to plumb them in, does anyone know an easy place to take off a feed for the senders?

I recall reading something about a particular point to check the oil pressure and thought this would be ideal but can't remember where now.


Ideally i'd like the feeds to be completely independent of the normal senders so will hopefully give early warnings of any potential problems.

I have a gap between the dash binnacle and the a pillar if this is what you mean? My dash is similar to the one in the piccies kindly posted by Buster.

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Eh? wot piccies remind me, cos ah'm confussed, just tae give me an idea what yer on aboot

do ye mean this where my REALLY expensive digital clock is?..

BB - apologies for my my toss description, the pics at the bottom of the page in your second link. I have that sort of dash is what I was trying to say.

Redhand - cheers, any idea where I can purchase such an item or is it fairly standard and widely available? Thats what i'm after as long as it takes a completely seperate reading, a "kind of" fail safe.

cheers

why wood yer want a water pressure gauge?

i fink he means oil pressure/water temp, Slob - buurrats only an unedificated gess.

dunt yer get a light on yer dash to tell yer when things is getting dangerously low?

oil pressure gauges just give yer palpitations as they go up and down depending on injun speed and injun temp.
jaguar actually brought out a mod so the oil pressure gauge only has 2 positions now. zero and middle , if you have oil pressure it sits in teh meddle and if yer dint got any it drops to zero.

this was done cos so many folk was turning up at jag dealers saying " oh! look, my oil pump must be fooked cos the gauge goes up and down!"

when infact its perfectly normal and if there was only a light folk wint see it go up and down so yer dint get palpertations.


so if jag says its ok if yer light stays out, and not to pay too much attention to the comings and goings of a gauge, then i'd say that wur ok fer a landy to

Good points well presented but I still want one so I can keep an eye on things mainly when towing long distances. I've had such things in vehicles before and know how to read what they are saying. Totally agree with the analogy of the clueless jag owner and can see why they are omitted. On the other hand though I have had vehicles where the oil pressure warning light illuminates at a point which is way too low and prior warning could have helped save the engine. Perhaps the disco doesn't but I don't know what pressure it does come on at?

It will be either a combo of water temp/oil temp or water temp/oil pressure. Probably the two temps. Don't want to tap off from a sandwich plate as i reckon the reading at the filter will be pretty ****e.

Cheers
Ritchie.