Couple of Questions about Gauges By insanetexan (Read 662 times)

[insanetexan]

Ok I have 2 questions on MC54B-250 with Linhai Motor.

1st Question is "has anybody hooked up an oil pressure gauge or is there an oil port for one?

2nd Question is where would the best place be to hook up the wires for a Volt Meter?

Reason I am asking is I purchased a Quad set of gauges that have Volt, Oil, Temp and Fuel Gauges all in one unit. I am redoing my whole dashboard with new gauges including a GPS Speedometer.

[JR]

To my knowledge no place for the oil pressure gauage. On the volt meter that's a easy one because I have a digital one on my 250's. When you are in the dash area on this replacement you're doing just tie it in on the black wire off of the key switch.

When you turn on the key it immediatley reads the battery voltage. Once running it reads what the system is charging at. Even reads when the fan kicks on as you'll see a drop in voltage due to the fan's heavy amp load. You should have a accessory plug in the dash area, a empty plug with a black and green wire, can use that one with no problems, if not then again find the black wire off of the key switch.

JR

[insanetexan]

Thanks JR

The oil pressure gauge had me baffled. I searched all over the motor looking for a port. LOL

[nulldevice]

You can always cut into the oil line and install a T fitting for a pressure gauge port.

Or maybe you can find a banjo fitting to stack on top of the existing fitting, but that would require a longer mounting bolt.