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  1. adf5565

    Oil Pressure Gauge Location

    I believe it was 1/4 npt but I don’t remember exactly. Could be 3/8. You can get an adapter from that to whatever your mechanical gauge needs. I’d guess that would be 1/8 npt.
  2. adf5565

    Oil Pressure Gauge Location

    Agreed, and this should help with the plug removal. https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/oil-plug-above-filter-removal.214276/
  3. adf5565

    Oil Pressure Gauge Location

    The new sender arrived today so I swapped that in. The gauge works better now, shows was seems to be a more accurate reading. It doesn’t exactly line up with my mechanical gauge (Autometer reading is lower) but it’s still is giving a realistic value. I bought a full replacement gauge/sender...
  4. adf5565

    Oil Pressure Gauge Location

    Thanks for the info on the idiot light, I'm glad it comes on then vs at 0psi or almost 0. I just swapped in a 6.5 Optimizer so the motor is brand new. It does have the additional oil feed port on the front of the passenger side head which is where I've tapped in for my turbo. It only has 250...
  5. adf5565

    Oil Pressure Gauge Location

    Interesting. Well sounds like the only way to know for sure if I have an issue is hooking up the mechanical gauge to the sending unit location. Not sure why I just didn’t do this in the first place. This morning I pulled my Autometer sender off and hooked in the gauge. After startup at idle the...
  6. adf5565

    Oil Pressure Gauge Location

    I’m pretty sure this is a dumb question but I’m going to ask anyways, is oil pressure at the drivers side plug (above the oil cooler lines) an accurate place to verify oil pressure? The reason I’m asking is all of a sudden my Autometer oil pressure gauge has been reading very low (0-10 psi)...
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