Installing a VDO Oil Pressure Gauge

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:38 pm

This is for the 67.

Do I just hook up the wire from the gauge to the oil pressure sender ( without bypassing the green dash light) on the engine?? ( Not worried about the power hook ups).

The bus came with these VDO products ALL daisy chained together and installed in a board which of course had been spray painted

EASY ON THE SPRAY PAINT, MAN!!! ( you should see the amount of connectors behind the board....the guy probably wore his crimpers out).

Oil temp
Vacuum
Oil pressure
VDO Clock
Two voltmeter's (one is the 'vintage' style)

The 67 will get: Oil temp, pressure, voltmeter and a tach and maybe the clock.

The 78 will get the voltmeter to go next to the DD head temp.

RussellK · Post by **RussellK** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:00 pm

Are you using the same sender that runs the dash light? My understanding is the sender and the gauge must be in the same ohm range for the gauge to be accurate. I scanned the directions that came with my oil gauge. Look in my gallery.
-Russ

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:02 pm

RussellK wrote:Are you using the same sender that runs the dash light? My understanding is the sender and the gauge must be in the same ohm range for the gauge to be accurate. I scanned the directions that came with my oil gauge. Look in my gallery.
-Russ

OOOO, OOOOO!!!

Thanks!!!

Edit....yes, I would like to use the same sender that runs the light.

EditX2...Didn't see the scanned directions.....am I dense? (don't answer that

)

RussellK · Post by **RussellK** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:27 pm

Look again. They are in there now. If you need the instructions to the other gauges I might have them too.

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:05 pm

Thanks!

I can't read em tho....

RussellK · Post by **RussellK** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:16 pm

I see that. I saved it to the desktop and I couldn't read it either. I guess it's because I had to make the file size small enough for the gallery to upload the scanned image. I wonder if Sluggo knows a way to post these up where they are legible.

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:14 pm

So, I can just hook up the sender to the gauge and the green light? or do I need the VDO dual post sender?

Randy in Maine · Post by **Randy in Maine** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:02 pm

Dual post sender please.

http://www.busdepot.com/details.jsp?partnumber=360006

Post by **Amskeptic** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:21 pm

Randy in Maine wrote:Dual post sender please.........

........which, by the way, is want to threaten you with low idle oil pressure because it switches at 10 psi and the factory idiot signals between 2-6 psi.
Colin

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:16 pm

Hmm...

I may toss the gauge back in the bin then and call it good with the light and the oil temp gauge. $30 at this point can be spent on preservation (pop top seal) rather than sensory replacement devices.

Jim, I wish I knew the answer to your question but I have type 1 and 4 swimming in my head right now and it kinda makes ya cross eyed at times

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:45 am

(here we go) you really don't need gauges with a carefully driven type1 engine.

In the hotdog heat of summer
or the swampy nights of old miss-iss-iss
In the rude galactic swirling
of a Tuscon hotpan fright
In the stadium stench of dustbowl Texas swirls
Where th' cacti all delite
for wheels that stick and spin along asphalt's
radiant course
And pushrods click, and valves do chatter
Never once say aloud "HEY, WHATTSAMATTAH?"
But a man with gentle foot, and senses true
Can sit perched with owl eyed-wide
and be told more than quick orange needle jerking
His ears and nose a perking
at the slightest mis-hiss and stuble
cast upon our burdened-beast
An oil change! One's timing set!
An easy push upon the meadow grade,
soon bursting towards mountain pass, or other such delight
can do far more for our gentle steeds
than mere numerals a-glowing,
some frosted night
So take heart, you air cooled wranglers
Who coax more life from antique beasts
in these days of electrons humming
And supersonic toothbrush drumming
One's acts alone can pre-fix
A rod's horrid thrashing
Or a soot-caked cylinder's scream
That punctures each bus-pilot dream
To awake in a yet another cool dawn light
and realize that nothing's th' mattah
So you of gentle fortitude
With feeler gauge and timing gun
Set your valves at .006"
And with gentle care, drive away
without worry for tomorrow
Never fear! For the beast
Will run, and run
Into the setting sun

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:56 pm

I know I shouldn't do it.....but I am paranoid about these things.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:17 pm

I crack me up.

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:57 pm

hambone wrote:I crack me up.

That makes two of us.

Did you get those rear light trim pieces? I have seen alot of them in TS split bus classifieds lately.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:14 am

No, have been broke lately but I just held up a bank (tommygun style) so now I gots some rainy-day-fun-money. Thanks I'll chekit.

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Installing a VDO Oil Pressure Gauge

Installing a VDO Oil Pressure Gauge