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Oil Pressure Pickup for Original Gauges
- Thread starter Rockonp04
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Rockonp04
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Does anyone have any insight on this oil pickup?
Barry
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It seems likely that you are referring to the oil pressure sender, not the oil pickup.
If so, one solution is to adapt (plumping) the existing Alpine oil pressure sender to the Ford 2.8 engine block. If the Alpine oil pressure sender was working correctly with the Alpine engine and Alpine oil pressure gauge, it should continue to do so on the 2.8 engine.
The other solution is to find an oil pressure sender that screws into the 2.8 block and has the correct electrical resistance response to work with the Alpine oil pressure gauge. Everything I have seen suggests that Series Alpines used the 240 / 33 ohm Stewart - Warner standard, but ask three people and you will probably get four answers.
If so, one solution is to adapt (plumping) the existing Alpine oil pressure sender to the Ford 2.8 engine block. If the Alpine oil pressure sender was working correctly with the Alpine engine and Alpine oil pressure gauge, it should continue to do so on the 2.8 engine.
The other solution is to find an oil pressure sender that screws into the 2.8 block and has the correct electrical resistance response to work with the Alpine oil pressure gauge. Everything I have seen suggests that Series Alpines used the 240 / 33 ohm Stewart - Warner standard, but ask three people and you will probably get four answers.
Aladin Sane
Diamond Level Sponsor
It appears the oil pressure gauge in my SV is a mechanical gauge, not an electronic one. As such there is no sender, but a tap at the block and a pressurized line that actually sends pressurized oil to the gauge in the dash. When I update the gauges on my alger project I will go with a sender and electronic gauge.