Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) Only took me a year to get around to it...

[Nemies]

But I've finally installed my fuel pressure gauge (well, actually, the wiring and the senders, I've had the gauge in my cluster for a year).



Great big big thanks to Steve St. Laurent for his excellent posts about his '99 install:

http://my.voyager.net/~stevest/tdrthreads/fuelpressure.htm

And to Westach for their installation diagrams:

http://www.frostalarm.com/cat/dp7.html

http://www.frostalarm.com/cat/dp36.html



I went the transducer (rather than mechanical) sender route because I'm crazy. This install taxed my abilities, but appears to have made me smarter. It was my first time actually wiring up a switch, making something out of a piece of angle aluminum, and messing with the fuel system.



By the time I was done, I felt like I had installed two gauges. And let me tell you... running 4 wires through a mounted gauge pod is a serious PITA.



Here's my abused, I mean shaped, piece of aluminum:

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And the same piece with the senders mounted:

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Here they are in the truck:

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(can I just say how hard it was to find 1/8" NPT to 1/8" barb fittings?!!)



And with the whole system installed:

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Reading nice an clean at 15psi:

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Wow. I gotta go find out what the pressure is like at WOT now... (and update my truck profile... )

 

[Whitmore]

way t go Kees, now you can start working on EGT and boost... ... ... ... these vitals are important ya know... ... ..... Kevin

 

[Nemies]

i'm done!

Heh, actually, those got put in right away. I saw how they were done at a BOMBing party, so it wasn't totally new to me. I kept putting fuel off because I had no idea how to mount them and I didn't want to take my gauge pod apart to run more wires.



Actually, after the road test, I'm fairly happy with my lift pump. 14psi idle, 12-13 taking it easy on streets, and 8 sustained WOT. I can actually get it down to about 6. 5-7 if I hold WOT all the way to the top of a gear. Since that's not something I do much, I'm hoping I shouldn't be worried that the reading is below 8.