fuel pressure gauge
07-28-2014, 10:07 AM
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fuel pressure gauge Is there a fitting that will allow me to install a fuel pressure gauge on the end of the fuel rail fitting with the schrader valve in it?
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Steve
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Steve
07-29-2014, 05:55 PM
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Harbor Freight sells a real cheap kit that will just screw on. Make sure you use Teflon tape on the hose connection to the gauge head and tighten as much as you can without cracking the glass on the gauge or you'll have more fuel than you want right in your face. The other end of the hose screws right onto the Schrader valve.
It's part #92699 @ HF and usually about $20. It has other hoses and adapters you don't need but at that price you could just toss the other bits. Full disclosure: the first one I bought was missing the piece in the end of the hose that actually opens the Schrader valve when it is screwed on so I had to swap for another that did.
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It's part #92699 @ HF and usually about $20. It has other hoses and adapters you don't need but at that price you could just toss the other bits. Full disclosure: the first one I bought was missing the piece in the end of the hose that actually opens the Schrader valve when it is screwed on so I had to swap for another that did.
Good luck.
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I bought a cheapo Actron gauge and added a T fitting
for my homebrew mechanical / electrical / scannable
setup; the hose, I dunno if it's up to long term under
hood service though. But the hose has the Schrader
on one end and swaged 1/8" pipe fitting on the other.
From the look of it an old style regrigerant gauge set
(R-12/22) could be an organ donor.
In the past I have soldered Schrader fittings to various
things after temporarily removing any soft parts.
You could also perhaps drill and tap the inside of the
present fitting, or file down and run a die over the
outside, and adapt to some more friendly sort of pipe
thread. I put a Schrader on the Pro Products rails
by doing this (outside pipe thread).
for my homebrew mechanical / electrical / scannable
setup; the hose, I dunno if it's up to long term under
hood service though. But the hose has the Schrader
on one end and swaged 1/8" pipe fitting on the other.
From the look of it an old style regrigerant gauge set
(R-12/22) could be an organ donor.
In the past I have soldered Schrader fittings to various
things after temporarily removing any soft parts.
You could also perhaps drill and tap the inside of the
present fitting, or file down and run a die over the
outside, and adapt to some more friendly sort of pipe
thread. I put a Schrader on the Pro Products rails
by doing this (outside pipe thread).
