yellowltcoupe22

yes i know there is a few how-to's on this but what im needing is pics or just tell me where all the plugs are at in the block that oil can be tapped into. i know there is one beside the oil filter. i've heard there is one on the back of the block to but i cant seem to see back there to find it. anyone have a 2.2 thats not in the car and can take a pic of where its at on the back (side of block closest to the firewall)? o and the ones on the head arent exactly an option since i dropped a rod in the original engine that was in my car and the one that replaced it is a lil different on the end of the head. i cant get to any of those plugs cuz they are so close to other things that the sendin unit will not fit.

bump for some help here

bump. come on guys i know someone has a 2.2 thats not in the car.

Maven

iTrader: (1)

When your under the car look under the exhaust manifold. the 3 gallery plugs are fairly hard to miss if youve got a manual. If youve got an auto, youre best bet is one of the 3 plugs on the front of the block behind the intake manifold. Again these cant be missed with manifold removed.

yellowltcoupe22

whats the difference on the exhaust side from manual and auto? i would rather use one of those on the exhaust side if possible since it looks to me to be a bitch to take the intake mani off.

Maven

iTrader: (1)

I guess that means youve got an auto You cant access the rear oil gallery plugs easily on an auto, the trans is so much larger it just covers them up.

Taking off the manifold is realtively easy. If you feel that removing the manifold is beyond your skillest, you may want to have someone else do your gauge install.

If you look in the howo section theres all the oil gauge threads as well as my manifold install that will help you get a better grasp of what youre up against.

yellowltcoupe22

lol yea i have an auto. but i can take the intake mani off. it just looked like it would be a tight squeeze to get it out of there. but i'll just do that since it seems to be the easiest way to do it. thanks for the help man.

XgunsmokeX

iTrader: (1)

doesn't those 3 hole not give a correcy pressure reading? someing about remove then sending unit fom the stock "low oil light"

yellowltcoupe22

yea they give lower pressure readings. thats why i was tryin to find some where else to put the sendin unit other than there and the stock sendin unit spot. imma just remove the stock sendin unit and put the new one there and put the stock one in the head.

Red07SSNA

There are seven block oil galley holes in which to read block oil pressure -- the 3 on each side of the block and the one for the original sending unit. There are three plugs on the back of the cylinder head (over the tranny converter) that you can use but these read half the pressure of the block because of a restricter between the head and block.

The six under the exh (3 holes) and int (3 holes) manifolds do not have much clearance over them -- not impossible but you'll have to be creative.

What I did was mount a remote electrical sending unit -- Adapter in original-sending-unit hole, brass tube to remote mounted sending unit, and an electrical gauge in a SS/SC a-pillar pod. Gauge is reading thefull block oil pressure. I installed the original sending unit in the cylinder head (center of the three galley plugs) and spliced in a wire to keep it working (I have a post on this). Since the original sending unit is an On-Off switch it is working with no problems reading half the pressure.

The partial sweep electric gauge sending unit is too large to fit in the original-sending-unit's hole -- however it is reported that the full sweep electric gauge has a thinner sending unit that will fit.