which one is best for a mini

depends.....if you are in Scandinavia Svenson....well electrical might be better in extremes of temperature....

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i have a leccy one to go in jam. mech ones need an oil tube from motor to gauge. i guess eventually it becomes something else to leak!

ok so both can be used and i quess this is the same for all gauges
so electrical ones
scandinavia well my mini was in getting hit by ice last night but that was in briz

I use mechanical guages where possible in all my cars - they usually use the full sweep of the dial compared to electrical - makes it easier to read when fanging along...

I prefer mechanical gauges, as they are more accurate & reliable, especially considering the electrics in a mini

But make sure you do a good job of the tubing - remember it will contain hot oil under pressure

Two of my mates had failures:
- sprayed hot oil over Phil's legs & nether regions in his Torana, nearly making him crash
- caused a fire in a Crown when the spotlights overloaded the wiring & melted the oil line, and Graeme is a mechanic

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I used to have and electrical one but now I have fitted an original smiths mech one. Both seems to do the same job only the electrical one needed more wires

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I have a electrical one in NAV. It flicks around a bit, but i can see when it's too low or none at all



Yeah the mrs was driving nav home in that.
must go look at NAV

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i am a strong belever of the mech gauges i have a few of the oil pressure ones but need a temp any one wanna swap with dollars your way depending on which one you pick apparently i have a cooper s oil gauge i dont want it but due to it being cooper s it has to be worth at least 16,000
jokin
makka

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do you just connect it on where the oil pressure warning light goes off if its an electric?

yeah but you need to make sure that the sender is compaterble with the gauge itself
makka

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I've used electric oil gauges in Alfas and Fiats and not only are they crap for accuracy, when a sender goes bang it costs you $100 or so to replace it.
<edit> they are not cheap like oil pressure switches are.

I like the Smiths mechanical ones.
Just watch the pipe connections, as said.

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i like electrical things but then i hate lots of wires so id go mechanical

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I like mechanical oil pressure gauges and electric temperature gauges.

With temperature gauges the mechanical ones can be a bit slow coming up. With trucks you would be at the bottom of a hill and the temp gauge was still going up the hill!

Ok, I have an oil pressure gauge question so ill tack it on here.

Would this electric gauge have the right pressure range to suit a mini?
I found it at work today.



I currently have a pricol mechanical one, but I broke the line, so im considering swapping to this electric one if it would suit. And if I could find a sender inexpensively.

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