Yeah, it will work.

Max chickens on that gauge is 58 PSI (@400Kpa). It would work fine, but the needle would spend most of its day at max deflection.

I'm guessing perhaps its a standard smiths oil pressure gauge with 100 KPAs screen printed instead of PSI.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Ok. So what type of sender does it nneed.does it need to be specifically designed to work with smiths gauges?

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850

You would probably have to measure the resistance across the gauge.
Also I seem to recall having a smiths electric gauge in my old mini that the VDO sender seemed to give odd (low) Oil pressure readings. I replaced it with a genuine smiths sender (exxy) and all was good.

With the right senders in place, I never had any trouble with electric oil or temp gauges. I run electric gauges in other (non-mini) cars I own with no issues.

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It looked like a capillary gauge to me...?

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

The capillary tube for a mech. oil gauge should be pretty cheap? (Cheaper than getting a new elec sender?) It's just a tube with the locking nuts on them.

http://www.getcarbitz.com.au/speco-pres ... 88173.html
http://www.garage7.com.au/home/index.ph ... &Itemid=53

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Yea, its an electric one . If I cant find a suitable sender cheap, I will just get a new pipe for my mechalical one. I just thought it might be a little simpler if I could just put in an electric gauge.

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Tim
Dusk Blue
1964 850