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alternate oil temp sender location? 200 1988

posted by  michelg on  Sat Aug 20 17:59 CST 2005
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I'm planning on installing an oil temp gauge in my 240. I know that the typical location is to replace the drain plug in the oil pan. I was planning on having a bushing welded into the oil pan and installing the generic sender from egauges.com into that.

However, I'm wondering if it would be possible to take a reading directly from the oil gallery.

In this pic (from a turbo motor, not mine) there's a blue fitting installed where there's normally a plug in the block.



My questions: does this in fact go to the oil gallery, would I have enough clearance for the sender (I'm guessing probably), and would it give me a good oil temp reading?

BTW, the other motive for this is to leave the oil pan intact :-).

Michel

1979 242DL
1988 244DL





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