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Old 06-09-2010, 01:39 PM
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I'm game. Any info on adding a fuel pressure gauge, i.e. best place to put it, best place to buy one, etc...
The only hold up to installing a Fuel Pressure Gauge is that the needle on an undampened Gauge vibrates around so much that you cannot tell what pressure it is reading.

I have only read of the below done for hooking up a test Gauge.
Somewhere there is a thread where one of the Members made a PVC aparatus that dampened the pressure. Not unlike they use in Plumbing to stop Water Hammering. It is a Vertical Pipe with a quanity of Air Trapped at the top.

The other way is to use a Liquid Filled Gauge.

I made the adapter (to connect a test Gauge) in the Pic from one of the Banjo Bolts on the Filter.

But, even with a Liquid filled Gauge the needle danced a little. I believe it would work better if there was a Valve that I could partially closed or a restriction in the fitting to help dampen out the pulses of fuel.

It is another one of those projects I have never done anything more with.
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