Additional Oil Pressure Port?

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billsdartgt

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I have searched with no luck, I am running the factory switch for my idiot light as well as another gauge, I have a TEE in the fitting but with the extra sensor it doesn't leave much room to get to the bottom of the distributor, is there another location on the 72 LA 360s to tap for a oil sending unit?
 
Bill, if you happen to be running a 90* oil filter adapter, yes, there should be a pipe plug there you can have access to an oil port on. Otherwise, I don't think there is another one.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Bill, if you happen to be running a 90* oil filter adapter, yes, there should be a pipe plug there you can have access to an oil port on. Otherwise, I don't think there is another one.
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I do have the plug, no tool to get it out though, it is a 5/16" square, thanks Amazon LOL
 
for the visually challenged....
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Great info. Wish I had known this. Took me about four trips to the hardware store to create my pipe nipple masterpiece in that small space.
 
I've seen them both ways after all these years
hope yours has the male square
post the pipe thread
 
Some 70's and 80's Dodge pickups had both a gauge and an idiot light. They had a 'Y' fitting that both sensors threaded into.
 
Put a socket extension in there and back it out. beep beep beep!
 
billsdartgt said:
what mine looks like, it appears a 3/8" plug, will know soon

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FWIW, you can probably get that bugger out with a screwdriver if you want to. It's simple really.

Get out your acetylene torch and fire that thing off.

Heat the plug up until it is nice and cherry red. Just heat the plug, not any thing else.

Once it's nice and cherry red, kill the torch and turn off the tanks. That gives the plug a little time to cool down a skosh.

Take some WD-40 or similar light oil and spray the plug. More spray, more contact high (if you are into that sort of thing) just enough to quench the plug a bit.

Candle wax and similar waxes work too. Just put the wax on the plug and let it melt a bit and take it off.

Now take your regular screwdriver that will fit sideways in the square and screw it right out. The plug will literally be finger tight.

Works every time.
 
YR, wasn't urgent to remove, not going back on for a while, since I had the time I found the 5/16 socket
 
Why couldn't you take a cheap *** 3/8" extension and grind a tad off each side until it fits?
 
^ just threw out the only cheap one I had about a month ago. 6 bucks and a click of the mouse problem solved.
 
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