I'm actually a classic owner but the engine is a roller 351/408 stroker, so i figured I'd ask here. I've been having a pretty annoying issue with my oil pressure sender/adaptors.
I transitioned from an older style 351w (early 70s), and tried to re-use my old oil pressure setup. Though I'm not sure the exact names on all the extenstions/adaptors, the setup went roughly:
Block - > 3" long copper piece .) short (maybe half an inch) threaded adaptor - > a hexagonal piece another few inches long which accepted the oil pressure sender.
A few months ago i pulled over because my car was smoking, long story short, the copper piece had started to fail. I replaced it (and was feeling pretty proud of myself), but about a month later the replacement piece fails again. In both cases, the copper piece broke off in the engine. I was able to get it out with considerable struggle the first time, now its a shop and they want to charge me a few hundred to do it.
The entire setup above seems excessively complicated, and if i'm going to have them re-do it... if at all possible, I'd like to use some stock 80s/90s roller 351 part number that i can get off the shelf and that would fit... ideally using 0-1 adaptors of any type. And I really don't want another copper adaptor that fails in the engine.
Questions:
1) Is there a stock oil pressure sender that attaches directly to the block that would fit?
2) What year/model oil pressures might work? The dash cluster is a stock 1966, so it has to work with that.
3) Any other ideas?
4) Please help me avoid any more embarassing and smoky/leaky breakdowns lol, thanks
If it matters, the engine has a serpentine setup off of an 89 bronco. You would think that an 89 bronco setup would work, assuming the sender would be compatible with my wiring/gauges/etc.
I transitioned from an older style 351w (early 70s), and tried to re-use my old oil pressure setup. Though I'm not sure the exact names on all the extenstions/adaptors, the setup went roughly:
Block - > 3" long copper piece .) short (maybe half an inch) threaded adaptor - > a hexagonal piece another few inches long which accepted the oil pressure sender.
A few months ago i pulled over because my car was smoking, long story short, the copper piece had started to fail. I replaced it (and was feeling pretty proud of myself), but about a month later the replacement piece fails again. In both cases, the copper piece broke off in the engine. I was able to get it out with considerable struggle the first time, now its a shop and they want to charge me a few hundred to do it.
The entire setup above seems excessively complicated, and if i'm going to have them re-do it... if at all possible, I'd like to use some stock 80s/90s roller 351 part number that i can get off the shelf and that would fit... ideally using 0-1 adaptors of any type. And I really don't want another copper adaptor that fails in the engine.
Questions:
1) Is there a stock oil pressure sender that attaches directly to the block that would fit?
2) What year/model oil pressures might work? The dash cluster is a stock 1966, so it has to work with that.
3) Any other ideas?
4) Please help me avoid any more embarassing and smoky/leaky breakdowns lol, thanks
If it matters, the engine has a serpentine setup off of an 89 bronco. You would think that an 89 bronco setup would work, assuming the sender would be compatible with my wiring/gauges/etc.