[DeTomaso] Fw: Oil temp sending unit

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Bob replied to me off-list and I forwarded it to the list as I was not the person asking for info in the first place.

Side note:
I have successfully replaced the water temp sensor with a standard Ford type part and my Celsius temp gauge shows decent values. It does not work well at temps in the boiling range so something is a mismatch between the gauge and sender. Different application though.

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mikeldrew at aol.com>
To: <guson at home.se>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fw: Oil temp sending unit


> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Mike