Where would you stick the probe for an oil pressure gauge?

choices are a sandwich plate under the filter, direct replacement for the low oil pressure switch or add the switch to a tee and the pressure sensor to the tee as well

And if it was a T where would you T it into?

I'd like one. Correct my thinking here Mike if needs be. Not that there is any risk of ring gumming with my truck, but if it was to happen wouldn't oils pressure go up?

The other reason is we have only a warning light as you say and I like early warnings. I'm like that......

no you should see nothing pre problem on a gauge, you will see a rise in oil level, a stickiness and the oil will have a smell of veg oil, then one day you go to start up and you have no oil pressure because the oils polymorphed into a jelly mass , from my understanding this happens when the engines cooled down from a run and the engine oil is contaminated with veg oil, all engines have some bypass on the rings, the single tank oil user is recommended to change the oil and filter at 50% less miles than recommended, though synthetic oil is giving you 100% more miles between oil changes i would not trust it, a twin tank by the virtue of not starting on veg oil but diesel which itself is a mineral oil and will mix without issue then allows the owner to continue with recommended oil change frequency ( though again and this is my personal opinion, i would not trust synthetic to give me the higher mileages)

you may see a change in oil pressures but as far as im aware there is no data regarding this on any veg site, you have to be aware that oil temps and oil age will affect the pressure at a given rpm anyway, different oil filters can give you different readings as well


read this

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.caldow/Elsbett/oil.htm


i would be tempted to put the T in were the low oil pressure switch is

Thanks Mike. I'll give that a read later.

One thing to remember here, you cannot mix mineral oil with synthetic as it will polymorph without ever being overused. Anyone using veg would be wise to run on Semi and not fully synthetic.

Lez said 'Semi'....

Shogun sports have an oil pressure gauge as standard, it would be interesting to see how they do it, some oil filter housings have spare threaded holes that are blanked off for gauges and coolers etc, don't know about the mitsi though

Quote: LezT wrote in post #6

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One thing to remember here, you cannot mix mineral oil with synthetic as it will polymorph without ever being overused. Anyone using veg would be wise to run on Semi and not fully synthetic.

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and he knows what he`s talking about

I thought, isn't semi just mineral and synthetic mixed?