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ok fellas i need help installing an aftermarket oil pressure guage. i know how it all hooks up but i do not how to get the original sending unit off to hook up the guage. this is what i need help with. also this is on a 69 f250 4x4 with a 390 in it. thanks
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The sending unit should just unscrew, a 12 point wrench or deep socket should get it. There should be fittings and adapters with the new gauge. If the sending unit is origional you might have to get mean with a pair of vice grips or something. Gook luck, Billemc
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Should have a hexagon type of metal at the base of the original oil sender unit which a wrench can attach to unscrew the unit, the oil sending unit is attached above the oil filter adapter unit. Make sure to use teflon tape on threads, when installing the new oil adapter unit.
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well fellas i tried everything to get it off and it aint comin off so now wat cause the stock pressure gauge dont work. and how am i to know wat the hell pressure? so just lemme know what else to try. thanks
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Try some good penetrating lube, and if that dosen't work, get some mechanix gloves, let the truck get to temperature, and try it then. you may burn the crap out of your hands, but it'll expand the hole, maybe enough to pull the sending unit.
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Put some penetating oil like amish77 mentioned. The place the wrench on unit, and hit the wrench at the end with a solid hammer, in the counter clock wise direction. This might jar it loose.
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Originally Posted by 7FORD2
so after i pull off the nut and washers it will pull right off or does it screw off?
I have seen some old sensors that had a 5/16 nut and washer on them. If this is the case, then under the bell part of the sensor next to the block, they have a square part that a 9/16 wrench will slip over. Sometimes they are hard to get a wrench on, but it can be done. Turn it in a counter clockwise rotation and un screw it.
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i am working on the right thing. the nut and washers are on the brass stud. then the little boot slips on to the stud. so i took those off and tried unscrewing the bell part and it turns but just keeps turning and not coming off. so now what?
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Originally Posted by 7FORD2
ok fellas i need help installing an aftermarket oil pressure guage. i know how it all hooks up but i do not how to get the original sending unit off to hook up the guage. this is what i need help with. also this is on a 69 f250 4x4 with a 390 in it. thanks
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Clean and scrape at the base of the oil sending unit with a thin small screw driver, you should notice the 9/16" hex nut at the base of the oil sending unit. Sometimes it hard to see because of the power steering pump and fuel pump location.