Oil pressure & temperature sensor
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Oil pressure & temperature sensor
Can anyone either take a picture of or tell me where the oil pressure and oil temperature sensors are? It'd be much obliged. Also what goes right above the water pump (top left if looking head on) I have an 81
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The oil pressure sensor is installed in the left (driver's side) rear of the block, behind the intake manifold. The sensor threads into the same hole that the oil line went into, on earlier cars with a mechanical oil gauge. Look for a cylinder standing upright, to the right of the distributor, with an electrical terminal on the top of it.
If I remember correctly, the oil temperature sensor is installed in the left lower side of the block, in or near the flange that the oil filter attaches to.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "above the water pump". Are you referring to the A.I.R. (Air Injection Reactor) pump, which is part of the emission system, and is mounted to brackets above the water pump, or something like a sensor installed in the block or the intake?
If I remember correctly, the oil temperature sensor is installed in the left lower side of the block, in or near the flange that the oil filter attaches to.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "above the water pump". Are you referring to the A.I.R. (Air Injection Reactor) pump, which is part of the emission system, and is mounted to brackets above the water pump, or something like a sensor installed in the block or the intake?
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An aim? And I apologize the sensor isn't in the front by the water pump, there was a place for one there that I do not know what it is for. Anyways do yall know what the oil temp wire looks like? Where it comes out? What's an aim?
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The sensor for the temp is in the side of the block under the driver side exhaust manifold. The fan switch in in the opposite side same place and the pressure is on the back of the block.
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The sensor for the temp is in the side of the block under the driver side exhaust manifold. The fan switch in in the opposite side same place and the pressure is on the back of the block.
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