Ginny's (imagesinthewind) current saga today re oil leaks and Randy Leo's daughter's oil pump failure got me to thinking again about a vulnerable area on our cars, oil, more specifically, oil pressure.
We have the very real issue of oil cooler hoses that fail on our cars. And all we have is seconds to react to a gauge
I had an oil line pop off on my VW Rabbit years ago. I was able to save the thing because VW has an idiot light that comes on at 7psi.
I have wanted to add a "T" to the oil pressure port and plumb in a VW sender (same metric thread, I think) and add a light in a "belt and suspenders" approach.
Has anyone already done something like this? If so, does anyone know the kit of parts needed ( sizes, sources). I think this would be a worthwhile peace of mind addition to any of our cars and probably can be done for less than $20 (even $10 if you swipe the sender from a boneyard
Rick