I have a mechanical gauge and I still have a functional idiot light.  I did this by putting a nipple and tee in the block and hooking both lines to that tee.  My thinking on this is, if I lose oil pressure I may not notice the gauge drop but if that light comes on glowing RED on my dash I will definitely notice.  Can you simply add a tee where your turbo connects????

Thanks both! I figured out from this picture that I can connect it in the "OUT" port on the oil filter sandwich adapter. I also have some stainless brake line tubing that I better replace that plastic stuff with:

Bullet Bob wrote:

I certainly don't know much...for sure.  Or maybe it's...I, for sure, don't know much.  Butteye (Thanks Mike) was always told that in a hy-droil-ik system, the pressure is the pressure.  The check valve is in the pump so any place downstream should have the same pressure.....I think...maybe.  So according to that thinking, your idea of tapping the filter adaptor sounds like the way to go...and get rid of that plastic tubing.  Or T's simple idea of using a T.

BB
 

 
Not quite. If you just pressurize a hydraulic system and have no flow, the pressure should be the same throughout the system. Flow messes up that nicety. Every turn, passage, and oil user creates pressure drop (think resistors in a circuit). Measure the pressure (voltage) after each resistor and it will be lower, eventually becoming zero after the users. (Pressure is voltage, flow is current).

Hakan is correct about plumbing the measurement pressure tap on the output side of the oil filter, that is the stock location. If you installed the measurement pressure tap between the pump and the filter, a blown gasket on the filter could fool you into believing you have oil pressure until all the oil has been pumped onto the road.

A mechanical oil pressure gauge? They still make those?

You truly are a artist Hakan👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I like the way you use the word "modified". More like created a 3-D jigsaw puzzle and assembled it.

Did you completely weld out the base and rings on the bezels?

Pictures won't open for me, any idea why?

Hakan wrote:

Hornman wrote:

I like the way you use the word "modified". More like created a 3-D jigsaw puzzle and assembled it.

Did you completely weld out the base and rings on the bezels?

Thanks all!

I used this method to figure out the design of some of the pieces I needed as I've never taken the time to really learn how to use any 3D drawing software:


Hakan,
I still have my old faithful drawing board with the "drafting machine" mounted upstairs in the garage. When things get tough, I still go up and do the rotations like your diagram to make sure I will have a great fit!

Most of the instrument panel is welded together, in some cases I spotwelded and then used lead to get it to look the way I wanted it to look:

DC wrote:

Hakan,
I still have my old faithful drawing board with the "drafting machine" mounted upstairs in the garage. When things get tough, I still go up and do the rotations like your diagram to make sure I will have a great fit!

Yep, even if I make my living from IT I still prefer to do a lot of things the old school way. Well, maybe it's because I spend too many work hours in front of a computer or in meetings and really like to get some "real work" done when I am off work.

Rudi wrote:

Notwithstanding the issues with Pb, being old school I loved working with a torch, flux, wooden paddle and lead! Bondo shmondo!
Truly exceptional workmanship!

Thanks Rudi!
 

ultrastang wrote:

Very nice work as always, Hakan. Looks like you're still progressing along on your '67.

Thanks Steve!

The progress has been very slow for a while, but I actually recently spent a whole week cleaning up and reorganizing all the stuff in my garage which lead me to get motivated to start working on the car again. Also helped a local buddy to weld some stuff at his place last week and he asked me how much I really had left to do on the car and as it's "just" paint, interior, some plumbing and wiring I was thinking I'd better try to finally get it at least possible to drive and take the rest from there.
 

ultrastang wrote:

For the past 3 or so months (in my spare time), I had been working on a '72 F100 long bed Sport Custom for a guy that lives 80 miles away (he's the guy I bought my '69 F100 short bed Ranger from in April, 2011). I put front discs on this '72 and added a booster with a 'modern' MC to it.

He's only had this '72 for about 8 months now so, there's still lots left to do in most all areas of it. This is an account of some of the things I had done on this truck, during the addition of front discs and a power brake booster to it.

http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1452673-disc-drum-brake-valve-bracket-attached-to-booster.html

That looks really nice! Also fascinating to see for how long Ford actually used some of the I-beam front axle design.
 

Just astounding!  I'm always just stunned by the amazing work on your car!