Oil Pressure / Temp gauge into a 912

[chickybok]

Hi Guys

Has anyone put a Oil Pressure / Temp gauge into a 912. I've picked up a 911s gauge (Pic attached).

Do I need new senders to make it work
(which ones and where can I get these from)
Also - If so... how do I attach them

I guess I can use the oil pressure switch for the yellow light!

Has anyone do this before????

Thanks again.... David

[tronman]

Look up Norv Parr at the Texas912.org , he just did this on his E...should be the same setup for the senders I would think.

[chickybok]

Thanks - will do

[912UK]

Dave how did you get on with it. As I have just got mine today and I am looking to do this soon.

Mark

[Enrique]

Dave,

I did that exact mod a year ago. It works great and looks cool.

First, I bought the gauge pictured in your post. Then, I removed both my oil temp sender and my oil pressure idiot light sender and sent them, along with the gauge, to Palo Alto Speedometer in CA. Palo Alto sourced two new senders and bench tested them for compatibility with the gauge. This testing is important since there are several different early 911S oil pressure/temp gauges (see Johnson's book) and since the 912 senders are different from the 911 senders.

The new senders from Palo Alto installed easily. The new oil temp sender looks identical to the original. However, the oil pressure sender is different in that it is from a 911 and it has two posts. As currently installed, I am only using one of the posts- the oil pressure level post. This is because I have not yet run the required second wire from gauge back to the engine. I am assuming that the second post is for an idiot light. If so, you could certainly use the parking-brake light as the idiot light.

That's how I did it. There may be other ways.

Cheers,

-E

[oldbusboy]

I believe you need VDO 360 006 sender for oil pressure .. The temp gauge sender is VDO 323 055 .. at least for my gauge.

Trevor