Gauges, Oil Temp, Oil Preasure, Volts Fitment

[joed66 4]

Not to sure on the oil temp and preasure. Were do you attach them to or do you need to buy more stuff.

The volt gauge should be easy enough. I dont want them for styling just so i can keep an eye on how the engine is running. If anybody can help that will be great i have a tu3s engine.

Oh also could i put an oil cooler system off a 1.9 gti on my engine

[Anthony 1,003]

You'll need additional senders for oil temperature and oil pressure, as the TU3S doesn't have either as standard.

[joed66 4]

What do you mean by additional sender?

[Tom Fenton 1,542]

Have you already got the gauges? If so post a picture of what you have as a starting point.

[allye 530 3 Cars]

Its Georgries old XS no? So just standard XS guages;

 

 

You can fit a oil temp guage to the sump plug IIRC, not sure oil pressure is really needed, likewise with the oil cooler unless you hammering around a track.

[Anthony 1,003]

What do you mean by additional sender?

I'm assuming that what you've bought are typical aftermarket electrical gauges, correct?

 

If so, to make them work you need three things:

 

1. The gauge itself

2. In the case of oil temperature and oil pressure, you need a sender on the engine

3. Wiring for the gauge (probably +12v, earth, signal from the sender, and illumination)

 

The sender is what converts the oil temperature / oil pressure into an electrical output that drives the gauge. Without this, and as said TU3S engines don't have these as standard, there's nothing to wire the gauge to.

 

Mechanical gauges are slightly different, but they're less common.

 

As Tom says, probably easier picturing or linking to what you've bought.

[joed66 4]

I havnt bought them yet specifly for this reason incase i couldnt fit them im fine with wiring the gauges up for back likes and stuff as i have ran boost gauges in my old car. It was more the oil gauges and where to connect them to.

[Tom Fenton 1,542]

Oil pressure will need a sender in the block to a pressurised oil gallery, the oil temperature sender will need to be fitted in the sump. Usually most aftermarket gauges will come with the senders. However you will almost certainly then need suitable adaptors to make the senders fit to your engine. A typical way to do the pressure is to remove the pressure switch for the oil light, and use a T piece to keep the OE switch and then also plumb in your gauge pressure sender. The sump will almost certainly not have a place for the sender, so typically it will need removal, a hole drilling, and a threaded boss or half nut welding on.

All in all quite a lot of work, is it really worth the effort to you?

[welshpug 1,661]

its the wiring there so you can drop on a set of gti gauges and use gti senders if they will fit the block?

[Graz 1]

To make the oil temp and pressure gauges work on a set of gti dials in an XS I just need to fit gti senders in place of the XS ones on the engine?