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RE: Oil pressure sender data

Subject: RE: Oil pressure sender data
From: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:59:12 -0800
Cc: "Triumphs Mailing List \(E-mail\)" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Who knows, maybe there is an industry standard for these things.  Maybe
> there is one world wide manufacturer that private labels all
> these things.
> I know not.

There's no complete standard anyway, when the oil sender on my Chevy failed,
I found that the original sender was NLA and current replacements made the
gage read roughly 25% low.  Among the GM senders, there is apparently a
standard resistance range, what varies is the pressure at which the sender
reaches full scale.  My Citation had a 60 psi gage, I could only buy an 80
psi sender.

Not certain, but I believe it was also a higher resistance than the Smith's
gages use.  The Smith's uses a "heater" movement, while the Chevy had a
magnetic movement (similar to the TR3 fuel gage).

Randall

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