Aussie MKIII chitchat! (all welcome) NWS
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I have one thing I want to get done before my car is pulled to pieces and thats to get the oil pressure gauge on the digital dash going again.
It somehow became a casualty during the MOTEC install, the dude who installed the MOTEC got the rest of the dash going fine, (including tacho and at my request hooking up the check engine light as a shift light) but the oil pressure gauge is now dead. He said it must be the dash, he pulled it apart and re-did a few solder joins on the PCB which looked dicey but he said there is a signal getting to the dash connector from the sender unit so it has to be the dash.
One thing I know is he found all the other wires for the dash by backprobing so not sure if this may have fried the oil pressure gauge sectioin, I have a spare dash to try out but I have a feeling I will plug that in and it wont work either. Also a mates car his oil pressure sender on digital dash stoppe working, AND on JZA-70s the digi dash does not have an oil pressure gauge, just a warning light, so perhaps Toyota eliminated it for a reason??
It somehow became a casualty during the MOTEC install, the dude who installed the MOTEC got the rest of the dash going fine, (including tacho and at my request hooking up the check engine light as a shift light) but the oil pressure gauge is now dead. He said it must be the dash, he pulled it apart and re-did a few solder joins on the PCB which looked dicey but he said there is a signal getting to the dash connector from the sender unit so it has to be the dash.
One thing I know is he found all the other wires for the dash by backprobing so not sure if this may have fried the oil pressure gauge sectioin, I have a spare dash to try out but I have a feeling I will plug that in and it wont work either. Also a mates car his oil pressure sender on digital dash stoppe working, AND on JZA-70s the digi dash does not have an oil pressure gauge, just a warning light, so perhaps Toyota eliminated it for a reason??
pato;1069298 said:huh , did u take away my post
ahaha awwww common, what was bad about that ???
It was pointless with the other garbage gone.....
xsjado;1069786 said:Got bored so I hacked up my center surround. Gauge looks right at home in there.
That looks sweet!
I'm going to do something similar and mount my HKS Voltmeter there though I am having to decide which gauges I want to run and the voltmeter may get the chop. Ah decisions decisions.
Next weekend my car goes in stealth mode as the Work 18s come off and the JZA70R Charcoal 5 spokes go back on.
I plan to go the whole stealth look so I'll be chucking a new oil pressure and boost gauge in the stock cluster. Unsure if I want to use my oil filter adapter or grab one of these, http://store.driftmotion.com/Static/Item1jzssoilpressuresenderadapterfor18nptsender.php. I have read that the adapter never seals properly and I think the driftmotion one would last me until I buy a relocation kit. I could probably get one made up locally though right? As you can tell I'm hopeless with this kind of stuff.
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Yeah because I drive around with my bonnet off all the time . Going for a stealth/clean interior, no good in the glove box since I won't be able to see it and the fact that I'm too lazy to put it back in . Just gotta decide where to mount the other gauges...
. Going for a stealth/clean interior, no good in the glove box since I won't be able to see it and the fact that I'm too lazy to put it back in . Just gotta decide where to mount the other gauges...When you gonna be able to send that diff up KC?
I lent my car to a mate on sat night... time for another new clutch, it seems the spastic decided to try a 3rd gear burnout?!?! WTF no more trusting people in my car it seems... atleast he is paying for it!
So while the car is getting the clutch sorted I wanna get the diff and teins in all at the same time
I lent my car to a mate on sat night... time for another new clutch, it seems the spastic decided to try a 3rd gear burnout?!?! WTF no more trusting people in my car it seems... atleast he is paying for it!
So while the car is getting the clutch sorted I wanna get the diff and teins in all at the same time
xsjado;1071124 said:Yeah because I drive around with my bonnet off all the time
I too need to figure out where to mount gauges, I have 7 all up....