logansc
Well Known Member
Looked around but didn't find a thread on this one; so, here goes...surely someone has run into this before me:
I have both an EDM engine monitor and two separate gages, one for oil pressue and one for temperature. The two "steam" gages are purely backup instruments which I expect will be little more than cosmetic most of the time. The problem comes in hooking them up. I've worked out what to do with the extra oil pressure transducer, but there is only one place on my engine (IO-540K) for a temperature probe and that's on the back end of my oil filter adapter. I have that one running to my EDM 900. Any ideas on a good place to put the temp probe for my Chief oil temp gage? Ideas so far are to "T" off of the back of the oil cooler adapter and put one probe on each T or to do the same off of the oil cooler itself with an in-line "T" for the second probe. Another (better, I think) idea is to drill the spare sump plug and tap it for the second temp probe.
Won't give the same temp in each place (except maybe for the first idea) but that should be no problem. Might be interesting to know the temps in two different parts of the engine. Either way, both these gages are just backups if the EDM suffers a BSOD.
Anyway, those ideas notwithstanding, what have others done?
Regards,
Lee...
I have both an EDM engine monitor and two separate gages, one for oil pressue and one for temperature. The two "steam" gages are purely backup instruments which I expect will be little more than cosmetic most of the time. The problem comes in hooking them up. I've worked out what to do with the extra oil pressure transducer, but there is only one place on my engine (IO-540K) for a temperature probe and that's on the back end of my oil filter adapter. I have that one running to my EDM 900. Any ideas on a good place to put the temp probe for my Chief oil temp gage? Ideas so far are to "T" off of the back of the oil cooler adapter and put one probe on each T or to do the same off of the oil cooler itself with an in-line "T" for the second probe. Another (better, I think) idea is to drill the spare sump plug and tap it for the second temp probe.
Won't give the same temp in each place (except maybe for the first idea) but that should be no problem. Might be interesting to know the temps in two different parts of the engine. Either way, both these gages are just backups if the EDM suffers a BSOD.
Anyway, those ideas notwithstanding, what have others done?
Regards,
Lee...