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Austin Shackles
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On or around Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:06:36 +0100, Mr.Nice.
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>looking through the original manyal for my 1984 110 the dash layout
>has an oil pressure guage and an oil temp guage in the centre console,
>I'd like to add these to mine.
>so questions are.
>were the original guages electric?
>how easy would it be to fit electric guages?
>what and where would the senders go?
not hard. The panel with the clock and ciggy lighter etc. if you have it
unscrews revealing 3x42mm holes.
oil pressure is easy enough - find the oil pressure sensor, fit T-piece if
you want to keep the oil light as well, fit sender unit or capillary pipe
and run wire/pipe to behind dash.
not sure where the oil temp senses from, and in fact on mine I didn't have
one, I had in the centre clock, voltmeter and extra fuel gauge for the
reserve gas tank, then I mounted the other panel above it with a rev counter
and the original fag lighter and rear screen wipe switch in it. The oil
gauge I put in the panel where the voltmeter used to be as it's easier to
run a capillary pipe to there - voltmeter just needs a connection to
ignition-fed-live, which is available inside the bit behind the 3 gauges.
And earth, of course, but there's one of them too.
Also, I reckon oil pressure is more important than volts, normally.
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>looking through the original manyal for my 1984 110 the dash layout
>has an oil pressure guage and an oil temp guage in the centre console,
>I'd like to add these to mine.
>so questions are.
>were the original guages electric?
>how easy would it be to fit electric guages?
>what and where would the senders go?
not hard. The panel with the clock and ciggy lighter etc. if you have it
unscrews revealing 3x42mm holes.
oil pressure is easy enough - find the oil pressure sensor, fit T-piece if
you want to keep the oil light as well, fit sender unit or capillary pipe
and run wire/pipe to behind dash.
not sure where the oil temp senses from, and in fact on mine I didn't have
one, I had in the centre clock, voltmeter and extra fuel gauge for the
reserve gas tank, then I mounted the other panel above it with a rev counter
and the original fag lighter and rear screen wipe switch in it. The oil
gauge I put in the panel where the voltmeter used to be as it's easier to
run a capillary pipe to there - voltmeter just needs a connection to
ignition-fed-live, which is available inside the bit behind the 3 gauges.
And earth, of course, but there's one of them too.
Also, I reckon oil pressure is more important than volts, normally.
