[DeTomaso] Fw: Oil temp sending unit

[Thomas Tornblom]

mikeldrew at aol.com skrev:
> Somebody named Bob wrote:
> 
> Buy a new sending unit at Advance auto parts .Standard ford sending 
> unit for a
> 351c. Easy replacement and all leaks stop right away.No BRAINER
> \
> BOB
> 
> 
>>>> Unfortunately that is SO not true. :<(
> 
> It is true of the oil PRESSURE sender but that's not what we're talking 
> about here.
> 
> The oil temperature sender for the Veglia oil temperature gauge is 
> apparently also a Veglia part, and for whatever reason it is very, very 
> difficult to source.  I chased after one for Stephane Bergeron for the 
> better part of a year.  The Pantera vendors were constantly 
> backordered, expecting a delivery any day now, which never came.
> 
> He finally found one sitting on Larry Stock's shelf and bought it--I 
> think the sender alone was close to $300.

Ouch!

This could almost certainly be handled with say a VDO sender and the 
gauge corrector I created to mix and match my Veglia tank sender and VDO 
fuel gauge.

Has anyone checked the resistance of the sender or what resistance is 
needed for various readings of the gauge?

> 
> So.  Do not thing for a moment that you will simply toss your existing 
> sender over your shoulder and replace it.  Senders typically don't leak 
> in and of themselves; it's leaking past the threads, if anything.

Agreed.

> 
> Mike

Thomas