jeff spahn

So I was cleaning off my oil pressure sender with Wurth today after reading the thread on engine cleaning. It sure does wonders. Anyway, my oil pressure sender wires are exposed, the insulation was all cracked up and I noticed when I cleaned off all the crap, the wires are bare. Should I just paint on liquid electrical tape and call it good or what? They are bare right into the plug. Any thoughts?

Ethre

Whatever you do - don't torque the little "bolts" on the sender unit. They're actually hollow tubing and shear very, very easily.

(Been there, done that)

jeff spahn

no problem. how do you get the plug off if I need to? Pull straight down?

dr bob

Jeff--

Your plug pulls straight down to disengage it from the sender/switch. Contrast that with the earlier senders that Tom refers to, with two little screws threded into the bottom of the sender. Change was in '89 MY I think, for those following along at home.

Rob Edwards

Be forwarned, they can be a MAJOR PITA to disconnect. The front-of-engine harness from my donor GT engine still has its oil pressure sender attached, couldn't get it off even with the harness off the engine and on the bench. I guess it must be corroded on there, despite the sea of oil leaks that it swam in. Having an electrical connector pointing straight up was not the best idea....

jeff spahn

dang

Rob Edwards

Never know 'till you try, tho. Yours is a native SoCal car, and Ron always ran the belly pans, so hopefully there wasn't an opportunity for any corrosion to take place.

Honestly, for all I know, someone loctited my connector onto that harness 'cause it was loose and kept falling off. My n of 1 may be the total outlier.

jeff spahn

I wish I had that belly pan. When it went in to Greg to get the PPI he said I was lucky it didn't have one. It was one less thing to put on/take off. I would like to have one back because of the crappy fall and springs we have here with slush on the roads. Probably would have kept the rock out that got in my A/C belt and made it jump off the pully.

Love the car though. Gonna do a top end refresh this winter. Decided to not do the stroker with the way the market has been. Gotten my *** kicked in my hedge fund (I run one). Had a trader freak out and whack 90% of the account in a month before we could remove him.

Got a bad oil leak at the filler neck and there is silicone on a valve cover masking a leak so I'll replace the gaskets while doing the top end refresh.

Still haven't found my "thunk" sound in the rear end. This winter I'll drop the transaxle, clean everything and replace the trans mounts. That ought to do it.

borland

For those later cars (89+), the harness connector at the oil pressure sender can be more easily removed by carefully heating the rubber harness connector with a hot air gun.

This softens the rubber, making it soft enough to be pulled by hand from the sender (gloves recommended to avoid burnt fingers).

jeff spahn

Thanks much for that. Will do.