A Cautionary Tale

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Gotta be careful n gotta remember everything has a service life.

Copper tube is best..though even then it can be pinched closed.

5 yrs on those is my rule of thumb.
 
I've had diesel tractors with copper tubing on them for years and never had any issues.

The gauges on my Dart are mounted on the cowl. I used a short piece of copper that is bent to the needed contour to get into the engine bay then a piece of braided ss to the engine. It's been this way for 16 or 17 years.
 
If you use copper, put a loop in it right after it comes out of the block. This will lessen the effect of vibration. Its also important to grommet the firewall where it passes through and make sure its not rubbing on anything.
 
mcodecuda said:
I would change that plastic tubing to copper while you’re at it.
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Yup, I had a plastic line get too close to a header. Going through the gears in a 67 Camaro the plastic got hot enough to blow a bubble in the line before it popped. Smoke everywhere, Thought I torched the motor...nope. Lucky I had a pair of vice grips with me to get it home. No more plastic, went to copper tube and it never happened again.
 
Summit Racing has SS Braided hose assemblies in 3 different lenghts that fit varios oil gages. I think the lenghts are 3,4, and 6 ft. The 6 footer is around $40.00, I just installed one in my 66 B-Cuda.
I make my own AN lines, but I don't have the tools for that small size, which is AN 3,or 4.
But I agree on elec gages, no oil leak problems. I'm slowly changing over to elec gages.
Dave
 
what's funny is most people i know that have had a sender go bad, hooked up a mechanical gauge to check the pressure, before they bought a new sender
 
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