Replacing the oil pressure switch?

Think I might have one floating about somewhere. If no-one else comes up with one, I'll hunt my spare one down.

Jon.

Cool, dont mind who i buy it off lol! If its someone who is going to one of the coming shows...panda meet in april maybe Makes it easy to buy then!

Cheers,

Si

If you are inclined to be a purist dont fit any gauges, or you will end up worried to death. You wont have time to look/play with gps/stereo stuff. You will start with an oil pressure dial and find the reading is flucuating between 19-36 lb psi while the book says 42-57. Next you will worry the dial isent giving an accurate reading. So next we buy a calibrated professional oil gauge tester, and yes the oil pressure is way down. Next we put 20-50 oil in and still the same. So now there are two options. Constantly worry or do an engine rebuild. Perhaps how things are nowadays with just a token oil pressure gauge which gives a red light in emergency conditions is a kinder option for most of us.

We're only talking a beer fund contribution - a couple of pints should cover it . Are you coming to the April meet? I'll bring it along with me, just in case.

Cheers,

Plug

hehe, I'm not that pedantic. Cant help to have a bit more info in the car though, maybe a temperature gauge too! In fact the car needs a clock too. That should fill the radio space nicely!

Thats good with me, I will definately try to make it to the april meet. First south west (home) meet I have heard about...apart from the ff butlins meet in minehead. Couldnt go to that.
Cheers
Si

Make sure youve got plenty of space or a add on plan.If you get the ''gauge bug'' there are others like a vacuum gauge,ampmeter,voltmeter,rev counter etc, not forgetting the digital versions.

Now that I've got the money, I'm thinking of fitting a digital rev counter to the selecta. I'm a bit bored with the manual one I've got now, lol.

Just a minor update, I got a new switch and it worked fine. While I was at it I got a new fuel filter (the one on the car looked like it was the original one!) and a bottle of the local equivalent to Redex. The total came to a little over 30€ (and the fuel filter was over 20€!!).

The oil pressure light works just like it should now, so thanks to all for the help.

The oil pressure gauge ain't going to happen, as I now have some other issues with the car to work on, but that will be another thread