[RESOLVED] Prosport electric oil pressure sending unit thread?

[alice]

I read the merged post on oil pressure sender(s) and the rest of them I could find and I still have a question. Does the Prosport Electrical Oil Pressure gauge sending unit need a, adapter to fit the 2g water-cooled OFH? Or will the sending unit just thread into the OFH? I will be running it off of one of the two available pressure ports(the 2 big allen plugs) in the front of the OFH. Thanks for any help!! -Jeremy

 

[Supa Dexta]

Do you know what you have available for a port? On the 1g's, the port is BPT (british pipe thread) And the sender is NPT I think, (national pipe thread) so I simply ran a die over it and converted it to BPT to fit the available port. Worked well.

 

[blcknspo0ln]

Where the heck did you find a BPT tap from? You sure you have that correct, I would have ASSumed that the thread is NPT and you need to tap to BPT?

 

[BoostedinSoFla]

There are no NPT threads on the oil filter housing. They are BSPT/BPT. (This is why almost all of us have oil leaks there when using those NPT elbows provided in the oil feed line kits etc.)

Autometer sells the adapter in BSPT/BPT. I believe the part number is 2269 or something to that effect. One end is the male at 1/8th BSPT/PT and the other end is a female 1/8 NPT which your aftermarket sender will screw into. This completely replaces your stock sender since it is useless anyways.

Edit: Here's the link. It can be found for cheaper if you do a little bit of searching with the part number.

Auto Meter 2269 - Auto Meter Metric Adapters - summitracing.com

 

[Supa Dexta]

Where the heck did you find a BPT tap from? You sure you have that correct, I would have ASSumed that the thread is NPT and you need to tap to BPT?

Re-read.. I used the die on the sender, not a tap in the housing. But in either case, I have a tap/die set that has a number of BPT pieces. Again this is 1g, I'm not sure on 2g housings.

 

[Burnett03]

Mine threaded directly in, i used teflon tape to seal it.

 

[alice]

Thanks for all the replies guys. Does anybody have the Prosport Oil pressure gauge? I know some people do so if so, did you have to get the 2269 Autometer adapter or did you just thread the sender in like Burnett03?

 

[Chuck_3]

Mine threaded directly in, i used teflon tape to seal it.

Where did you thread yours into? I took out one of the plugs in the oil filter housing and it was way to big for the prosport sending unit and then I got called into work and couldn't finish the install and haven't gotten around to it since.

 

[Supa Dexta]

I'm curious too, if the 2gs are different, or if you forced it in. The threads are similar, and you could likely thread it in with some force, but I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[alice]

Chuck 3 ^^^, I PM'ed Burnett03 and here it is:

I'm using a stock filter housing.. I screwed mine into where my stock pressure sender was.

I am going to do that but I want to retain my stock oil pressure gauge also. I will have to search around and find a t fitting so I can keep both.

 

[Chuck_3]

Yeah I thought about the stock sending unit as well, but I would like to keep it.

 

[1glaserturbo]

Mine threaded directly in, i used teflon tape to seal it.

Exactly, right from the package too!