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    Added an oil pressure gauge and kept warning light

    The only way copper or rigid metal tubing will be durable is if it were bolted down tight. The problem comes between the engine and cab. Vibration and flex will eventually crack the tubing without some form of flexible joint. Stainless flex line is really just plastic or rubber tubing with a...
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    Added an oil pressure gauge and kept warning light

    I used the plastic tube. But you are right, it will get swapped out at some point with braided line. On the plus side, that Fluidampr harmonic balancer has taken all the shake out of the belts and motor when at idle. That, and I seem to have 40 psi of oil pressure at idle but it had only been...
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    Added an oil pressure gauge and kept warning light

    I added an oil pressure gauge to my M1009 and plumbed it into a tee so I can still have a functioning low oil pressure warning light. Things got a little kooky when I discovered the oil switch is threaded 1/8-27 npt and NOT the 1/4 npt I thought. Turns out the 6.2 block actually has a 45 degree...
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