I am trying to find a place where I can get a 1/4" npt female to M16x1.5 male adapter for the oil pressure sending unit. I need to switch it over from the LS1 sender to the one originally on my S10. That way the gauge works properly and the fuel pump safety is in effect still. I am trying to make this all work as stock.... Also I am trying to find an adapter for the temp sender...to put the factory S10 temp sender in the passenger side head. I dont know yet what thread pitch the original S10 sender is...but I know it is M12x1.5 on the head. So if anyone can chime in on this I would be very much abliged.

Thanks.....Josh-

 

I made one from an old broken sending unit. I simply drilled out the fitting and tapped it 1/4" NPT. I think I have another one I could convert and sell if you can't find one locally.

 

Can only find 1/8NPT female to M16 male.....but here's a starting point for you.

Sunpro
Autometer
Equus
Stewart Warner

http://www.sw-performance.com/produc...yid=69&ispod=0

http://www.sunpro.com/product_detail.php?pid=16338

http://www.autobarn.net/eqoilpreselt.html

http://www.martelbrothers.com/catalo...p-1-c-488.html

 

Brains how much you want for it? I might be interested....finding one is not going to well here.

 

I would suggest calling Orme Brothers in California for your fitting (818-885-1414). These guys are a warehouse distributor for many product lines of connectors and AN manufacturers. If that doen not work, VDO used to carry some of these style adapter fittings in their product catalog. Good luck. Mac

 

$10 shipped sound ok? Just have to find it in the bottom of my tool chest

 

whoa.. that adapter is going to be just a thinly threadded ring.. lol

you could easily take a metric to 1/8" NPT fitting and drill it out, tap it and fit that fitting in it...

 

Its thicker than you think

 

well, lets see.
1/4" = 6.35mm

16mm - 6.35mm = 9.65..

9.65 / 2 = 4.82500

so you have about a 4.5mm thick ring around the edge of the adapter... plus the width of the hex head... yea, thats not as thin as i first thought.


(and yes, im bored)

 

Well, its less than that ... 1/4" NPT has a thread size very close to 1/2"-18 (.490" to be exact). The drill size is 7/16" (ie. hole size before tapping).

 

Try this out !
http://www.autobarn.net/eqoilpreselt.html

 

Hey Brains PMed ya on this one

 

FYI, here's what it looks like (yes Josh, this is yours)

 

what size socket fits the hex head on the LS1 sender?

 

Can't remember off the top of my head, but its like 22mm or somewhere around there.

 

the normal 1-1/16" oil pressure socket worked for me just fine....they sell them at about every autoparts store....some are 1" to 1-1/16" socket....thats what I got and its perfect fit.

Josh-

 

thats what i always use... if i use anything else, i usually break it. lol

 

looks like theres a fitting there that works