WBX gauge sender mounting

Pillow · Post by **Pillow** » Sat May 24, 2003 11:06 pm

Hopefully a simple question here... What is the process or adaptor to fit an oil pressure sending unit to a WBX case?

The pressure sender "idiot light" is mounted under cylinders #3/#4 where there is no room for a canister style VDO sender. If I remember correctly there is a special adaptor fitting needed..?

Thanks,

Vgonman · Post by **Vgonman** » Sun May 25, 2003 3:56 am

I have seen people do this a few differend ways. The best that I had seen is a fello that took brake line with a 1/8" NPT flare nut fitting on the end, put a 1/8 NPT nipple on the end of that and then carefully bent the tubing with a bender to get it to the top of the case.then he braced the dending unit somehoe ( I forget, but it did not look bad )

wbx · Post by **wbx** » Sun May 25, 2003 6:45 pm

Volkscafe.com has a pretty reasonable writeup on this explaining both the problem, and how you can use their kit

to monitor this situation.

Anyway, i purchased one of those kits, but have yet to install it. Components look OK, but honestly seems a bit expensive for what you get (i havn't exhaustively shopped around, though).

The cool trick, however, is to run another sender for fuel pressure and just have a switch that can toggle back and forth between the two on the dash.

http://volkscafe.com/index.php?sec=van& ... a3b97e32ea

and take a look under "Oil Pressure Problems: diagnosis and treatment"

Steve C · Post by **Steve C** » Sat May 31, 2003 7:37 am

Hi

The wbx uses two sensors, one under 3&4 pushrod tubes, the other is near the oil pump. Im using a VDO hex T peice (hex brass) with a VDO sender that does oil pressure and idiot light and the other outlet feeds my turbo. Im not sure if there is enough room to fit the VDO sender straight into the case.

Steve C

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WBX gauge sender mounting

WBX gauge sender mounting

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