Leaking oil sending unit
Just my luck. I have this unique ability to do things in the most difficult way possible, or find unique problems.
Anyway, today I finished my COT o-rings, and looks like it’s all good.
Then pulled the ABS module to send off tomorrow.
Finally, finished the oil filter housing gasket replacement, got it all back together, and while I was filling it with coolant and burping the system I spotted oil under the car.
Its not coming from the gasket, it’s coming from behind the knurled washer of the oil sending unit. I attach a pic. I JUST had this thing in my hand two hours ago, off the car and could have changed it in a second. The washer WAS loose, but tightening it doesn’t help much. (I’m wondering now if _this_ was the source of my leak all this time and not the housing gasket!)
Questions: do I have to dump my $30 of fresh synthetic oil to change this?
And, I did the conversion 13 or 14 years ago to real OP gauge, and was down here following instructions from Wes Chain, but have no recollection of what I did. I’ll check my old papers and see if I have Wes’s instructions.
Would that involve a different sending unit? I recall changing wiring around but not replacing this I don’t think. Would anyone know what part # I should ask for to keep my real OP qauge functioning?
Thanks for the help again.
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