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rob101
04-23-2006, 02:08 PM
anybody done this, or have links... also could you use the threaded hole for the oil pressure switch or would you have to drill and tap another hole
genphreak
04-23-2006, 03:09 PM
anybody done this, or have links... also could you use the threaded hole for the oil pressure switch or would you have to drill and tap another holeYou use a tee-piece on the oil-switch hole so you get to install both at the same place. Simple as that. :) nick
rob101
04-23-2006, 03:23 PM
You use a tee-piece on the oil-switch hole so you get to install both at the same place. Simple as that. :) nick
ah huh okay that makes sense, fun fun fun. now all i have to work out is a nice place for the gauge to live!
genphreak
04-23-2006, 03:51 PM
ah huh okay that makes sense, fun fun fun. now all i have to work out is a nice place for the gauge to live!Cool- if you find a good place to get a sender, pls let me know- I have a set of Audi gauges I want to install but do not have the 0-5 Bar oil pressure sender.

Here is the best how-to (http://www.cscoupe.org/tech/gauges/gauges.html) I know of btw. :) Nick
shogun
04-23-2006, 04:10 PM
In place of the econometer you can install the oil temp info. Look under "Tacho" on this E32
http://people.freenet.de/Herbie01/

Doesn't the M5 have a similar set-up?
rob101
04-23-2006, 04:27 PM
thats pretty good shogun, genphreak i'll look into it, today is the wage's people's RDO so nobody to ask. but somebody at my work should know where to get that stuff, we have hydraulic oil coming out of every orifice of this place.:p
genphreak
04-23-2006, 06:04 PM
In place of the econometer you can install the oil temp info. Look under "Tacho" on this E32 http://people.freenet.de/Herbie01/ (http://people.freenet.de/Herbie01/)Doesn't the M5 have a similar set-up?Yea that's cool- I tried reading the German but all the righ-click is dsiabled and that kills the web-translators also. I guess one would have to make your own gauge panel up. Herbie has put some serious hours into that e32. I must say, I don't get how an econometer is more important than an oil pressure temperature gauge on an e32... but then again, AFABMWIC it's a given that the thing is going to be mechanically perfect (if maintained by the book all its life... :D )