oil pressure gauge

[General Lee]

Hi,

How do you wire in an after market oil pressure gauge. Into a 1.2 and 1.4. Any help will be spliffing. :thumb:

Cheers

[AlexW]

You will need one from a Gte/Gsi, the wire should be taped up somwhere on one of the wires down the back of the engine.

[General Lee]

are the standard sr, sri, gte, gsi dials easy to fit into a 1.2

[Jack]

Get the right dials for the right age car, so if you have a Mk1, get GTE/SR dials; if you have a mk2 get GSi/SRi dials. Saves having to splice the appropriate connector on (Mk1 has a 12 pin, Mk2 a 14 pin) and fadge around with mounting the dialset.

[Riggy]

its not just the clocks that you need , its also the pressure sender, your 1.2/1.4 only have a oil switch so wont do pressure , this is needed of a sri/gte/gsi

[craig green]

your 1.2/1.4 only have a oil switch so wont do pressure , this is needed of a sri/gte/gsi

And cost feck loads. Avoid ebay descriptions for buying the clocks too, everything Nova related on there is SRI/GTE/GSi C20LET (funks me right off)

[General Lee]

Basically i have a mk1 1.2 saloon, but i have a 1.4 sr engine to go in. Does the sr engine have a pressure sender built in?

[craig green]

Yeah, it should have a large cylindrical sender/sensor on the back of the oil pump. Should be 2 pins on it. One for the oil light in the dash which your current engine/clocks will have, but also another (2) terminals for the gauge in SR/GTE clocks.

[General Lee]

Cool thats cleared it up quite nicely cheers, also do i just need a wire to connect to the coil for the rev counter?

[Ernie]

green wire to the coil and there should be a blue/green wire that will go to the oil pressure switch (big round thing with 2 plugs on it).
Then just plug them into the new clocks once sorced.

[General Lee]

Where will the wires be in the engine bay taped up somewhere.

[craig green]

Green Revs wire to coil negative IIRC.