Bx 16V Dials In 205 - Oil Pressure

[Alastairh 47]

Hello,

 

I have an issue with the oil pressure gauge on my BX dials. The car is a 205 with a GTI6 engine fitted. New sensor loom from brown plug under dash direct to 8v oil pressure senders. I have swapped the wires over, no difference and belled the cable through with no faults found.

 

Do you have to modify the BX dials? Its been a few years since I have done this.

 

Cheers

 

Al

Edited April 2, 2016 by Alastairh

[j_turnell 137 3 Cars]

Have you removed the ribbon where the oil level sender was and put the small nuts back on? Tried earthing the sender wire with ignition on? Do you have a standard gti set to try? I had problems getting mine to work and ended up swapping the faces over onto a gti dial set to get them to work.

[Alastairh 47]

Sorted.

 

The back of the oil pressure gauge is different (BX to 205). Swapped over with a spare 205 unit and hey presto

 

Al

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

As said, the easiest way to do this conversion is just to swap the faces over onto your GTI set of clocks. You can leave the odometer alone that way too!

 

I have also found that GTI clocks can be different too. I had a set which underread by 20mph when I put my long gearbox in my CTI. I swapped to another set of GTI clocks I had built up with Euro faces and when I fitted them, the speedo was reading correct. So your speedo is not just goverened by the worm and drive on the end of the driveshaft. What the exact difference is, I don't know. I was very surprised, but wasn't complaining

[Anthony 1,003]

Speedos can fail and significantly over or under-read, sometimes in a somewhat bizarre way, so I'd hazard a guess that's what you experienced Henry.

 

I've not checked the very early (pre '85 ish) clusters, but all the other UK clusters have Veglia made speedos that are the same/interchangeable. I've had to replace a few over the years for various faults as well as having them apart to fix the common broken trip reset or to change the mileage to match the car they're being fitted to.