Psychology

[elvimto]

Did your oil gauge come with a plastic or copper tubing set up, If its plastic I would change it to copper less likely to melt and cause a fire. i think we had an owner here that lost his car to that one. just sayin

cheers Stuart

[wilf]

It has a plastic line right now, and I may well be changing it for a stainless-braid covered aeroquip type line, as copper fatigues too easily with vibration and I have seen copper lines fracture.

Good point tho'.

[elvimto]

I have a ss braided hose from the top of the oil filter housing that stops at the middle of the firewall then I am going with 1/8 flexible copper line into the gauge, still to finish up my gauge clean up and lighting bit. Your car looks very clean.

cheers Stuart

[Andy Rundell]

Product still there - Gauges on home page then Smiths classic 52mm full scale (shows a magnolia face on the example), then rhs of top row of gauges.

Their part no 070.029

I had looked at that one before but it had a chrome bezel..... Is the black bezel an option or does the chrome bit just come off?

Cheers........ Andy

[martin]

Swap the bezel off the old temp gauge. Martin.

[wilf]

duplicate post!

[wilf]

I sprayed mine matte black, could just as easily have swapped over the bezels!

Stuart - why not run in SS braided flexi line all the way? Won't the copper line just make it difficult to remove the dash?

[elvimto]

I am using the soft flexible copper refrigerant tubing, at the back of the gauge you do a wrap, take the tubing and coil it around a soup can or beer can with about three or four coils which will give you enough to remove the instrument cluster. Plus the whole tubing and fittings are all free.

cheers Stuart

[Andy Rundell]

Swap the bezel off the old temp gauge. Martin.

yep, that is certainly an option, although if spending out on a new one I'd prefer not to need to take it apart and fit an old bezel!

........ Andy