Oil Sender Custom Tool

[3.2 CAB]

Here is the tool I made to replace my oil pressure sender on my 3.2. I made it out of 1/4" hard plate, made it to fit on four sides of the sender nut exactly, I left the area where I made the 3/8 drive hole extra beefy, but finished the angles so it would clear belts, brackets, etc. It locks onto the extension so it won't fall off. I took me a little bit of time and effort, but it worked flawlessly when I replaced mine, and worked great when having to torque the sender to specs.

[pwd72s]

cool...great work. I just used a 17mm CRAFTSMAN crowfoot wrench when I changed senders.

[fred cook]

You did a nice job on the custom tool. I'm afraid that it would not have worked on my car as the old sender was in the mounting block so tight that I had to remove the block and sender as a unit, put them in a bench vise and use major torque to separate them. When the sender did finally come loose, it made a loud pop!
Your tool would be handy to have for future use after a new sender had been installed.

Fred Cook
'80 911SC coupe

[3.2 CAB]

Hi Fred, I had to do that also, after I made the tool, I found the torque required to break it loose, would have probably broken the thru bolt off in the engine block, so I did remove all the stuff to get to it so I would not damage anything. I did use it to remove the sender from the mount block and then to torque it to specs. When I broke it loose from the mount block it also made a loud snap, could tell it was going to stay put until some serious torque was applied. The main reason I made it was because, none of my regular crow-foot wrenches would fit right, on or off the car, too thick, too wide, or too long from where the drive to the wrench part is.

[john walker's workshop]

if the tool works with minor effort, then fine, but most are real frikken tight, and you stand a chance of doing serious damage to the threads in the case, (especially soft magnesium cases) or breaking the hollow fitting.

[rbcsaver]

3.2 Cab,
Very nice job on the sender tool. I also purchased a craftsman crowfoot in SAE, though I forget the size at the moment. It converted out to the metric eqivalent nearly exact. I did have to take the AC compressor, bracket and othe assorted pieces out om my 84 3.2 to get the job done.
regards,
Steve

[3.2 CAB]

Hi Steve,I had to take all the crap loose, a/c compressor, a/c comp. mounting bracket, which made the removal of the muffler and the other brackets needed. I tried it first without taking anything loose... but I was watching the oil feed line for movement, and I could see that it was moving a just a little, when I was trying to loosen the sender, so I stopped, then took all the other stuff off, was a real ***** to get the muffler to cat bolts out. Then I found out that the bracket pn #91111319600 had the short ear broken off! It is really good stainless steel, just a flex crack because one of the other cat cover mount bolts was too long and was touching the cat.... to much heat it caused a crack there which lead to another which lead to this one getting cracked... and so the story go on and on...I ordered a new cat to muffler gasket, i bought a spool of 308 wire and migged the bracket. It has been 2 1/2 weeks, now thw P-dealer tells me the gasket pn#91111119101 will have to come from Germany!!!!!!!!!!!! $20.00 shipping for a 2 dollar gasket. O-well, I am going to fix me a white russian (several) and jump in the hot tub, and I will think about this crap later on!!!!!! To all, thanks for the comments, you too JW.
ps. please forgive any mispellings or ramblings, I already have had a few of those WRs! Later.

[MOMO3.2]

Nice work 3.2 CAB. I was able to change mine out with a liberally ground Craftsman Crow's Foot wrench. I did not have to remove anything to get it done either. But, I feel lucky not to have broken or stripped anything. It was really in there tight and came loose with a bang!

You did a great job crafting your custom wrench.

Mike