Oil Pressure Gauge

[alpenmac]

I am planning on buying and fitting an oil pressure gauge after an incident involving a major oil leak. i have seen mechanical and electrical oil pressure gauges for sale - which one for the stag and how easy is it to fit?
Alex

[Lingen]

Alex.
Electric ones are notoriously inaccurate and the sender unit is quite large for fitting in a restricted space.. Capillary type kits to fit the stag are widely available and not too difficult to fit if you have small hands!
Mike.

[sujitroy]

My Stag has an oil pressure gauge. It was as a fiddle to get the fittings on the end end where the oil pressure switch used to be,. I later modified the set up and added a T so that I could retain the oil pressure switch so that the oil pressure light and brake warning light still worked

[Danny]

Hi Alex,

Fitting an Oil Pressure Gauge is relatively easy. It is fed from the oil pressure switch housing which is close below the rear of the offside exhaust manifold. As previously indicated it is a fiddly job fitting the connection. The gauge can go in various places i.e in place of the standard clock, in a pod below the dash, in place of the ash tray of as Alan has done in place of the right hand dashboard eyeball vent.
Most of the Triumph suppliers sell the kits, here is one http://www.jamespaddock.co.uk/oil-pressure-gauge-kit-3

Catch up soon
Danny

[sujitroy]

Just a thought. You may want to consider a combined water temp. oil pressure gauge.

[richardthestag]

I have one of those dual gauges fitted to my stag😎

the only issue is that the water temp only go to to 110 degrees. i reckon the red would start nearer 120

doesn't matter though as it never gets that hot

[steve.n]

I managed to get hold of a TR6 capillary gauge, removed the clock and replaced it with the volt meter, fitted the oil gauge on the left where the volt meter was, easier to see.

[alpenmac]

Thanks for all the info guys. I'm having to replace the oil pump, which will require the disconnection of the offside exhaust pipe so access should not be a problem. I will have to get a guage from Holden's to match the magnolia faced others so I guess that a mechanical gauge is the one to go for. I'll also go for the option of clock in the air vent and oil guage in clock hole. Wish me luck!
Alex

[alpenmac]

Does anyone know the correct thread size for the t-piece to screw into transfer housing?
Alex

[DJT]

Be very careful screwing it in. The transfer housing is cast alloy and is easily split if over-enthusiastic. BTDT......

[alpenmac]

Thanks for the warning, but still need to know correct size.
Alex

[bonnietiler750]

I have an oil pressure gauge where the clock used to reside..It registers 35 when cold and 20 when hot and B*gger all at tick-over, I was warned that this was too low when I bought the car 16 months ago, the car uses no oil and has just covered 8000 miles since I got it (year round daily-driver) I'm kind of uncertain of its use to be honest

[DJT]

It is listed in the ROM as 1/8” Dryseal, with a torque setting of 5 to 7 lb/ft, 0.7 to 1 kgf/m

[Scar]

I have an oil pressure gauge where the clock used to reside..It registers 35 when cold and 20 when hot and B*gger all at tick-over, I was warned that this was too low when I bought the car 16 months ago, the car uses no oil and has just covered 8000 miles since I got it (year round daily-driver) I'm kind of uncertain of its use to be honest

I'd be inclined to get the pressure properly measured for peace of mind.

[Ritchie6]

I'd be inclined to get the pressure properly measured for peace of mind.

Those figures do seem on the low side. Mine is just over 50 psi when cold, slightly less when cruising (at say 50mph) and around 25 psi on hot tickover.
For some reason the previous owner mounted the gauge on the parcel shelf below the glove box but it's my intention at some point to move it into the main dash panel,hopefully to replace the clock which doesn't work (do they ever work properly??) Oh by the way it's a mechanical capillary type.

Richard