bringing back a dead horse thread(sort of)

[lostforawhile]

i'm bring back the thread on how to install a pressure gauge for the newbies and those who don't know. our car has a really wierd obscure thread on the oil pressure sender called bsp. it's not a standard or a regular metric. i just helicoiled an oil filter adaptor for someone who tried to put in a 1/8 npt adaptor. in order to properly hook up an oil pressure gauge you need a special adaptor. after many phone calls i finally found one that you can get through summit racing the part number is atm2268. and the price as of the time of this posting is 10.88$ summits number is 18002303030. i had found one years ago through MSC but i'm not sure if you can get it anymore. one end of the adaptor is 1/8 bsp and will screw into the hole for the oil sender. the other end is standard 1/8 npt. not sure if it's male or female but you can get the adaptors for 1/8 npt anywhere. what i did was run pressure up to the firewall and make an oil pressure manifold to send pressure to the gauge screw in a sender and put a small gauge under the hood. if you want to keep the warning light i would just get a pressure switch from summit,jegs,etc. i'm running one that comes on when the pressure drops to ten pounds vs. three for the stock unit. if you get one from them it will have 1/8npt threads which is a lot eaisier to work with you would just need to tee it in somehow. http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/oilpressure001.bmp http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/oilpressure002.bmp http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/oilpressure003.bmp http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/oilpressure004.bmp :cool:

[lostforawhile]

why is everytime i send a picture to photo bucket o' sh...imean photo bucket it looks like crap when it comes up? that picture was fine before i downloaded it. not to get off topic..... :uh:

[88Accord-DX]

I can't figure out how you get 2 pics side by side like that.

[mr eff]

just don't push enter between the two imagine links

[88Accord-DX]

just don't push enter between the two imagine links
Ohh, I see now. I looked at the reply and see it. Thanks

[mr eff]

sure... i meant to say image, but apparantly i'm retarded

[lostforawhile]

i'm bring back the thread on how to install a pressure gauge for the newbies and those who don't know. our car has a really wierd obscure thread on the oil pressure sender called bsp. it's not a standard or a regular metric. i just helicoiled an oil filter adaptor for someone who tried to put in a 1/8 npt adaptor. in order to properly hook up an oil pressure gauge you need a special adaptor. after many phone calls i finally found one that you can get through summit racing the part number is atm2268. and the price as of the time of this posting is 10.88$ summits number is 18002303030. i had found one years ago through MSC but i'm not sure if you can get it anymore. one end of the adaptor is 1/8 bsp and will screw into the hole for the oil sender. the other end is standard 1/8 npt. not sure if it's male or female but you can get the adaptors for 1/8 npt anywhere. what i did was run pressure up to the firewall and make an oil pressure manifold to send pressure to the gauge screw in a sender and put a small gauge under the hood. if you want to keep the warning light i would just get a pressure switch from summit,jegs,etc. i'm running one that comes on when the pressure drops to ten pounds vs. three for the stock unit. if you get one from them it will have 1/8npt threads which is a lot eaisier to work with you would just need to tee it in somehow. http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/oilpressure001.bmp http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/oilpressure002.bmp http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/oilpressure003.bmp http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/oilpressure004.bmp :cool:anyway going off topic here,hope this will help someone to not ruin the threads in your filter adaptor.

[lostforawhile]

can this be moved to how to? i wanted to post it there but it wouldn't let me. i created this thread to help keep people from stripping out the threads in their filter adaptor. this adaptor part number is very difficult to find and i spent several hours trying to track it down again for the benifit of everyone on the board.

[A20A1]

My gauge had an appropriate adapter for my oil pressure sensor port. Of course I then had to remove the oil pressure sensor. Nothing has leaked or come loose and it's been a few years already.

[lostforawhile]

you lucked out then, the guys at summit had to really look for this one. a 1/8 npt wil screw in but will cross thread the aluminum in the process. sometimes it will be tight enough to not leak. i found this out years ago on my civics. all older honda's have this thread also. t's not only bsp on the oil pressure sender but on every other sender that screws into the block. i'm trying to find my old vdo catalog they had an adaptor with bsp on one end and the hose crimped right to it with npt on the other end. it was made just for honda's. I have n't been able to find a bsp die yet,I've got the tap but it took six months to get and cost me 50 bucks. i have a couple of adaptor blocks around here that the factory sender will screw into they mount on the firewall. i might sell them eventually,but they are in herehttp://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/10/web/2050000-2050999/2050019_80_full.jpg somewhere :lol: you still need the adaptor but this will move your factory sender up to the firewall and let you hook up a gauge too.

[lostforawhile]

If anyone is interested i found a cheaper source for the adaptors, i need to gauge intrest because i will have to do a quantity buy, one end is bsp and will screw into the sender hole, the other end will accept a male npt thread. the npt part can be found at any hardware store.

[Ace]

So I have a oil pressure gauge I wanted to install but the sender was to damn big so this summit adapter will work with our cars

[lostforawhile]

what is it an electric gauge with a sender? yea the summit adaptor will screw into the hole where the original sender went. the other end of it is standard 1/8 npt if you use it you can use a standard gauge tubing kit with fittings and mount the sender somewhere else more convienient. if you need any other kind of adaptors they are easy to find when it's changed over to a standard pipe thread. the 1/8 bsp and 1/8 npt look almost the same but there is a one thread per inch difference between them. that means the threads won't quite line up right.

[Ace]

yea its electric but the sender was huge so I can use this summit one right

[lostforawhile]

right you would screw the summit adaptor into the hole where the old sender went, mount the oil pressure sender where you want to, then run a standard oil pressure gauge line between the two. you could strap the sender where it's convienient. what you are doing is remote mounting the sender. I just went a little more complicated because i have a mechanical gauge and i wanted to keep the warning light too. you are bringing the oil pressure to the sender in other words. http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/oilpressure004.bmp

[Ace]

right I would screw the summit adaptor into the spot where the old sender was and lead a wire into my dash and connect to gauage

[lostforawhile]

you still have to connect the sending unit that came with the gauge you can just put it somewhere else other then screwed directly into the oil filter assembly. for example you could use some sort of clamp and mount it to the firewall then run tubing from the adaptor screwed into the oilfilter assembly to the sender. then the wire from the sender to the gauge. i don't like those electric gauges for that reason, the senders are so dam big they always get in the way. the point of the adaptor is to convert the threads over to 1/8 npt whixh is the standard for most aftermarket senders.