Re: Guage Install Questions

[Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net>]

>On my trip to the salvage yard today I found an Audi coupe GT and 
>snatched this cool triple pod gauge thingie with a Voltmeter, Oil 
>Pressure in BAR!, and temperature in Celcius.  MY question is can I 
>use the stock sending units already in my car like for the temp 
>gauge and oil pressure light in my instrument cluster to power these 
>gauges if I splice the wires coming from them and run them to the 
>new gauges. I know I can do this with the stock volt meter I already 
>have in my dash, but can anyone tell me if that would work or 
>another way of making those little needles DO SOMETHING.  Thanks, 
>for the help in advance.
>

To make the oil pressure gauge do something, and to have your stock
oil pressure system continue working, you'll have to get a dual
sender.  You might want to go get it off the car you took the gauges
from.  With cars that came stock with the voltmeter (like yours it
seems) rather then the oil temp, I am not sure if the oil temp sensor
exists in the engine bay...might want to snag that from the parts car
also.  Oh, the Audi temp reads to 170 C, while the stock VW one reads
to 150 C...the sender / sensor might be different.

later!

==Brett

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