Has Anyone Installed a Oil Pressure Gauge in a 850?

warmblood58 · Post by **warmblood58** » 01 Jun 2016, 10:19

I am having some difficulty with a previously installed oil pressure gauge (VDO) electronic by previous owner. Has anyone here installed a gauge using factory port in block? I want to keep factory sender while also adding a variable pressure sender that will work with my VDO gauge - this will require a "T" and having reached out to IPD with no success, I am wondering if anyone on this site has done so? Never imagined that adding an oil pressure gauge would be so difficult on an 850 . . . .

Sommerfeldt · Post by **Sommerfeldt** » 01 Jun 2016, 12:32

Volvospeed has some pretty pictures for you.

http://volvospeed.com/vs_forum/topic/13 ... nt-1750540

As for tips on the T, here you go: http://volvospeed.com/vs_forum/topic/13 ... r-senders/

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Sommerfeldt · Post by **Sommerfeldt** » 01 Jun 2016, 12:35

Btw, when you install that thing, see if you can't get some pics and do a little write-up of your process - it'd be great to have that info around here as well. It may be lurking somewhere, but I couldn't find it here, only on VS.

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warmblood58 · Post by **warmblood58** » 01 Jun 2016, 13:30

will do, thanks for the help!

warmblood58 · Post by **warmblood58** » 02 Jun 2016, 09:40

I think I understand now why this is such a pain . . .btw, if you remove the fan/fan shroud as a unit, the sender switch access is quite accessible so really no need to remove intake