broken oil pressure sending unit

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Apr 17, 2008 | 05:52 AM

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King Nothing

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i chanced it and almost blew my engine! don't chance it

Apr 17, 2008 | 08:47 PM

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MjMaro

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Originally Posted by COD02SS

******* HATE that thing. Why did gm design it to be directly behind the intake manifold. Broke mine clean off swapping in an LS6 intake on my old firehawk. Had to overnight the part from SDPC. The shipping was more then the part itself.

Its so that you know the engineers designed the car/motor and not the mechanics, lol.

Apr 17, 2008 | 09:24 PM

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primer84z

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couldnt all this be avoided by removing the brake booster vacuum hose from the back of the intake before pulling it off? Seems like this is a very common problem that easily avoided....

Apr 17, 2008 | 09:36 PM

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i broke one on my dads car when i installed a ls6 intake, he drove on for a few miles and the oil burst through the diaphram and leaked everywhare!! i switch out the sensors with the intake on before and it's not to bad, the hardest part is finding thr connecter to sanp it back in

Apr 19, 2008 | 09:57 AM

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Janko98Z

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I was very careful after reading up on the manifold swap but couldn't get the brake booster hose off the manifold. I wiggled the manifold out to get to the back and the hose stretched the wires to the op sending unit. They didn't break in half but the wire inside the insulation was broken. I managed to splice the wires and it worked again. If your sending unit doesn't look broken see if the wires are stretched or broken.

Apr 19, 2008 | 01:44 PM

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I relocated mine after breaking it..... used braided line... screwed it in and then tied the sending unit to the end of the line. Just a thought. Works great.

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