Do you like your fuel presure gauge? My concerns...

[socalmat]

Hey guys, I am getting ready to purchase a set of three pillar mount gauges. There are many out there that are mechanical that have a fuel line that enters that cab. Some have an isolator that have a valve or something in the line that changes over to coolant. To my understanding they have been problematic. In other words, they leaked, and the manufaturer is changing the design.

Question: Is there an electric fuel presure gauge with a sending unit that looks OEM, and are there other gauges to match?

I would also like for these gauges to have a dimmer adjustment.

Thanks

MW

 

[fox]

I have an electric guage from Geno's and like it.

I did mount the sender on an 18 in rubber hose (grease gun hose ) and have had zero problems with it.

 

[rweis]

Westach KV type, solid state senders. FP/FP 0-30/0-30 lighting off dimmer tap on instrument cluster dimmer. Also running OP/D* 0-100/0-230 no probs. Westach will make ANYTHING you want. Call them. Only KV are solid state.



6 months, no problems of any kind



Bob Weis

 

[Dkevdog]

Matt- Don't completely throw away the idea of mechanical gauges. The new isolators have a better design and are not supposed to problematic. They too carry a coolant solution to the cab instead of fuel, but if a leak is developed it will only be coolant, not fuel. More members have had problems with electric senders than with mechanical gauges.



Kev

 

[rweis]

Bill Fleming also has a great idea of using a needle valve as a snubber. IF it leaks you only get drops, not streams. Simple & effective, cheap too.



Something like:

Source fitting, needle valve (only slightly cracked open), line to gauge. Needle valve keeps pressure pulsing to just about nothing. Then add line to gauge and you wind up with a buffer tube with the needle valve at the front end. If you had a leak, just turn the needle valve off till you got home to fix it.



I put them on my solid state sensors just as a extra safety measure so I could turn off the pressure if needed.



Bob Weis

 

[WadePatton]

I bought a -used- Westach electric and have had ZERO problems for about 11 months and 20k miles.

 

[jstyer]

Mechanical guage

I've had an Autometer mechanical guage , without isolator, in my truck for 47K miles with abosultely NO PROBLEMS. I even have it mounted on the pillar. All i did was slide some rubber fuel ine over it before the compression fittings were put on to isolate vibration and prevent rubbing through line. I would do this again as mechanical guages are far more accurate than electric IMO.

John Styer

 

[KennyM]

I had my sender go bad, which caused me to change my lift pump. When I get around to upgrading my gauges I will go Mech.

 

[WLM_RAMMAN]

so who make the isolators that use coolant for a mechanical guage? I like to use a mechanical gauge, but didn't find a good isolator.

 

[klenger]

WLM_RAMMAN



Here's a link to the Di-Pricol FP guage from Geno's.



http://216.167.41.9/CoastalData/showdetl.cfm?&DID=30&Product_ID=851&CATID=1