Cascade Crew

[91RSVert]

So half decent weather, went to tinker on the car. I see part of my oil leak is the ever common oil sending unit leak.

Has anyone come up with a better solution? Made from solid metal or something?

[chevymad]

Whats leaking? Usually its the sender itself. Not much to do but replace it. I think some have converted to a different style unit. Tony did I think.

[Xophertony]

i have an 88 350 that had the sender that is up by the dizzy, i converted to the 89+ 3 wire unit that goes down by the filter. cut the three wire harness off a 92 in the junkyard and ran the brown wire down to it and spliced. the sender works now, which was my goal. you can then block it off, but i just left the old sensor in place. it did not leak, just did not work.

good luck.

[fiveoformula]

Thats wierd, I have both Sensors... on the china wall and down by the filter. Is that normal?

[Xophertony]

[91RSVert]

Mine is the one down by the oil filter. And yes, the body is leaking.

[aaron_sK]

The pressure sender leaking is god telling you to buy Autometer gauges.

But seriously, I took mine out when I put in the Autometers and it was bone dry. Ran the Autometer sender for a couple of years, then took the gauges back out of the car, and plugged it. Then put them back in before I sold it. Never had a single leak from anything the entire time.

Maybe I was just lucky.

[iansane]

I had picked one up from Schmucks when I worked there to replace my factory one (old one never leaked, just pegged the gauge). It's not Delco, it's Niehoff brand (store brand before they were bought by O'Reillys). You're welcome to have it, just pay shipping.

[91RSVert]

Thanks Ian, but if its the same style/design, I'll just pick a new one up here. Cost isnt that much. I looking to see if someone knew of a different design.

[DBL_TKE]

[Xophertony]

glad i could help.

[91RSVert]

Bringing this back to the top as the leak is getting REAL bad and I still hadnt found a solution.

After reading this a few times, some TGO threads, and some google searching I'm going to do part of the pre88 setup and just run the metal sending unit.

From my readings, the switch part really doesnt do anything? Or I could run a jumper from one wire to the other?

Does anyone know which wire is the cluster signal wire?

[iansane]

[91RSVert]

Of the 3, I know 2 are fuel pump. But which ones? Easily traced with ohm meter to FPR?

[aaron_sK]

[RSFreak]

[iansane]

From alldata; 91 Camro 5.7
Orange is B+
Tan is to "indicator"
Gray intercepts the fuel pump signal from the ecm

[Twilightoptics]

http://www.cascadecrew.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7593&start=0
Long skinny grey one with wires coming off of it in the middle/bottom.

[91RSVert]

FPR Fuel pump relay. Wasnt even thinking about regulator when I typed that, ops. The junkyards here rarely have these cars anymore. So by the time I pay entry fee(yes that is correct), find the part, get it off. For about 5 bux more I can go get a new one which I would rather have. I dont see how I'm looking into this to much. Just needed to know which of the 3 wires I need to hook up to?

So tan is to the dash, got it.

In twilights pic. I want to replace the 3wire gray n metal thing. With the single wire gold one. And jump the orange and gray if needed.

[iansane]

Don't jump it. Otherwise your fuel pump will never turn off.