Has anyone put a tee in place where the OEM oil pressure sender mounts into the filter housing?

I have an electric oil pressure sending unit I want to tee into with a brass tee to have the oil pressure sender and the OEM sender installed at the same time.

I read some posts about possible breakage of the tee because of the weight of the senders and bouncing arround while motoring. Has anyone done this and have you had any problems?

Any help would be great! I've had my oil Pressure gauge installed for a couple of weeks but unsure about hooking up the sender.

Thanks!

 

I have an electric send and there is no room to add a tee to the stock location. End result were some very nice welds and a new oil filter housing

 

Room is tight and there's not much room to put a T, but I found that if I removed the sender, put in a properly threaded pipe about three inches long (if I recall correctly, I did this a few months ago) and installed a T on the end of that pipe, there was plenty of room for the factory pressure sender and the branch I used to operate my pressure gauge. Mine is not an electric gauge, but there should be decent room for an electric sender if that's what you've got.

 

as you move the stock sensor farther by fitting a Tee, you will eventually start to bump into things. I added a close nipple and the smallest coupling I could find (bronze) which I had tapped for 1/8-NPT, coverting it into a Tee. from that side port I ran a 45 degree 1/8-pipe-AN-4 adapter and remote mounted the sensor in the engine compartment, connecting it with -4 braided hose.

 

Has anyone had any ill effects with the mounting?

The braided hose sounds like the best way to go after I install the tee. Keep the vibrations away from the sender and not to stress the tee bolting into the filter housing.

Thank you all for your imput!!!

 

I'm not sure a 3" post with a sensor hanging on the end of it is a good idea. I would think that lil guy will probably shake a lot with normal engine harmonics to the point fatigue.... Why not install a hose directly and then install a manifold on the end of the hose?

 

Call Promini, they sell an adapter to install senders and use the OE oil switch. Since the original switch is a 1/2" pipe thread, strenght should not be an issue. It is a steel fitting with three 1/8" pipe tapes at 120 degrees apart. It does stick out a bit, but not excessive. A 6 point deep broached 27mm socket is helpful to remove the OE switch. Good luck.

 

Any one know the part number of the adapter?
I need it!!!

 

Sorry, I don't know the part number. You'll have to call Promini for more info. It's not on their Web Page or in the Catalog. They'll know what your looking for when you call.

 

I did that just yesterday and I used the Craven Speed Tapless adapter. It has a 3/8 female end to screw the OEM sender and a side 1/8 female end to screw the other pressure sender, then it has a male 3/8 end to screw it in the place of the OEM sender.

 

I too used the Cravenspeed adapter and put the OEM sender on the end of it so I could retain the stock idiot light as a backup. I ended up having to put a 90 degree elbow off the adapter so the aftermaket sender would clear. After about 4 months I noticed drops of oil underneath the car and found that oil was leaking aroung the elbow. I replaced the elbow and put locktight on the threads to help seal them an went about another 2 months before seeing oil drops again. After doing it twice, I was now convinced that the weight of the aftermarket sender hanging off a dinky 1/8" brass elbow with the jarring and jiggling of driving was causing the elbow to leak. I just last weekend got through relocating the oil sender to the firewall with a custom made bracket and connected it to the tapped hole in the Cravenspeed adapter with about 8 inches of 1/8" nylon tubing. That should solve the problem. Oil pressure readings are unchanged.

 

I didn't need any 90 degree elbows to fit it all in...had to think a bit how to fit the whole "group" but I managed. I also put thread sealant on all the connections. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture while the car was jacked up and now t's difficult to do a good one from above.

Anyway, I'll keep an eye on it, if I start seeing oil leaks I'll relocate it to the firewall too. Could you put a picture of how the sender is located now?