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Old 04-17-2012, 03:22 PM
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I recently bought some cyberdyne gauges (trans temp, fuel pressure, oil temp, oil pressure) and the oil pressure and fuel pressure sending units look identical.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CYB-SENSS2E/?rtype=10
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CYB-SENSS4E/

I already removed the internals of the schraeder valve and now I'm stuck with what to do.

I called summit and they said "according to autometer, I have to buy an adapter with a hard line" and that costs over $40 that seems a little crazy to me, but idk

So if anyone has an electric fuel pressure gauge installed with the sending unit, please help me out!!
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Looks like your gonna need to make a trip down to the hardwood store for some fittings.
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I just bought these to work with my Glow Shift electric fuel pressure gauge. These parts will allow you to hook up the electric sending unit to the schraeder valve. If your sending unit is the same as glow shifts it will work. Hope this helps.
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EAR-968604ERL
SUM-220441N
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I appreciate it. I just ordered them from summit so hopefully they will work. Now are you running any plastic or hard line for the fuel? I'm unsure of how it's supposed to work. Temp sensors are no problem for me but I've never done a pressure gauge
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If its electrical there is no line that runs to the gauge that carries the any fluid or air (depending on what the gauge is for).

It uses the sending unit that sends a voltage to the gauge and the gauges uses the voltage to determine the psi.

I hope you didn't buy the second one as its only for 0 - 16psi.
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no I bought the correct sending unit. I was just using it for reference in terms of pictures because they are identical looking.
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If you have an aftermarket FPR, most have a plugged port that you can use for a fuel pressure sending unit. If not, then the parts posted to link to the fuel rail valve will work.
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I'm running no fuel line at all since it's an electric sending unit.
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Yea. I got the pieces and they work awesome!! Thanks so much for the info. The guy at summit was an idiot telling me I needed some special auto meter ****. It was gonna be like almost $50 n this cost me $16!!
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Originally Posted by pboxfun
I just bought these to work with my Glow Shift electric fuel pressure gauge. These parts will allow you to hook up the electric sending unit to the schraeder valve. If your sending unit is the same as glow shifts it will work. Hope this helps.
Summit:
EAR-968604ERL
SUM-220441N
i ordered those as soon as i read it, worked perfectly with my maxtow dual view electric fuel pressure gage! thanks!!!!!
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