im in the process of ordering oil pressure and oil temp gauges, just wondering would i be better off getting electronic or mechanical? mechanical is easy enough to understand how to hook up, but how would i install an electrical one? 99 2200 s/f btw

99firese wrote:im in the process of ordering oil pressure and oil temp gauges, just wondering would i be better off getting electronic or mechanical? mechanical is easy enough to understand how to hook up, but how would i install an electrical one? 99 2200 s/f btw

i prefer electric simply because if the tube with the oil (on some guages) ever comes undone in your car, thats a decent amount of psi of hot oil spraying in there.

electrics use sending units, similar to how the stock one works... oil stays in the engine.

wire transmits the pulses/resistance and the guage reads from that. like your engine coolant temp sensor.

coolant stays in the hoses and pipes, sensor reads from insertion in the pipes.

check this post

http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=2&i=304582&t=300047#304582

i perfer gauges that have a wide sweep , auto meterhas electic gauge with the wide sweep


the wider the sweep the more accurat they tend to be