help!

i have a 6 gauge rover dash & a rover engine.

the 3 center dials clocks, battery & oil.

now the oil one what do i buy to plug onto the back of that? picutre below to wire into the oil sender unit?

it looks like a screw like thing but im not sure what i need .

lastly will it matter that the car is a carby model?

i think the dash is of an mpi or an spi.

so what do i need to buy?> can you point me in the right direction.

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Hmmm, can't remember what they are called (maybe something with the work 'cock' in it, maybe petcock). You can get them from auto one or supercrap. They have a tube, with a little metal ring around the end, then a screw on cover, the metal ring and cover work together to seal it. Hard to explain. Someone else will be able to help.

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you need an oil pressure line to go from the back of gauge to the sender....

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thank you.

So i just looked it up, and they are not called petcock. The thing I was thinking of are called olives and they are the little Olive shaped things in the picture above. The tube nuts slip over the tube, then the olive goes on. You then screw the tube nuts onto the gauge, and the the olives bite into the tube causing it to seal.

I had to replace my tube after routing it too close to the extractors when putting the engine back in. I wondered where all the smoke was coming from...

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that is why the good ones are copper not plastic

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FINALLY!! Something that I can contribute to. I used to run a tool shop for a truck and trailer smash repairs. Going by the picture above with the white nylon tube, it is a nut and olive setup! Anything from 1/4" (6mm) up you use what is called a spigot inside the end of the tube as well. They hold like sh*t to a blanket aswell!
If the tube (line) is a 5/32" then you can use a "roadranger olive".
All the nuts, olives, and spigots are redily available from any truck parts suppliers (Gleemans, Hiways, etc) or places like Industrial Fitting sales, Blackwoods, Express Industrial Supplies, etc.
These questions I can answer!

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Always make sure that tis white pipe rests on the exhaust manifole before it gets to the gauge ...NOT.
I bought my first Mini with a blown up engine because of one of these tubes installed too long and it say on the extractors till it melted and let all the oil get pumped out till engine had no oil to run on. BANG.

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Would be worth finding out. Tachos from late 1996 onwards won't work on a carby engine.

how do i find this out mate?

i bought it from the uk so i cant ask.

is there anything i should be looking for?>

all i know is it come out of a 1989 Uk mini.

i think some one maybe said to me to check it is not mpi or spi or it wont work..