Guages

[rswakebrdrcobra]

alright, this may be a stupid question. i want to add two new guages to my pillar, i want to add a good temp and oil pressure guages. i however want to accomplish this without disableing my in dash oil pressure and temp guages. is that possible to do, or am i stuck using the factory inaccurate hard to read guages?

[white1983GT]

you can get t-fittings to allow use of your factory gauges at the same time as your aftermarket gauges, they're even available at Advance,and Auto zone and the like.

[83gt5.0]

I believe there are multiple spots to put a water temp sender. Depends on the intake. I think the oil sender will need a t-fitting.

[v8only]

you can get t-fittings to allow use of your factory gauges at the same time as your aftermarket gauges, they're even available at Advance,and Auto zone and the like.


ahhh, my bro and I have dual pod autometer gauges, oil and temp waiting to go in, and everyone preaches the t fittings, but no one yet has to come up with anything solid.

I have called the local vato zone, and they thought I was crazy. Do you have a part #, a picture, or ANYTHING that will help me out finding this t fitting so I can get the temp guage hooked up??

[white1983GT]

I had water temp and oil pressure gauges installed on the a-pillar of my Blazer, aside from the gauges themselves I bought everything I needed to install them from advance, including the t-fittings. I never knew they were hard to find or anything, just told the guy at the counter and he brought them to me.

I'd take pics, but I sold the truck in december.
maybe try a NAPA they usually have car guys working there that may be more likely to know what they are talking about. By the way I'm not knocking Autozone or anything, but around here I've talked to many of the counter people that couldn't tell the difference between a throttle body, and a carb.

[Mighty Mouse]

When you go to the parts store ask for a brass T-fitting. If it's Advance Auto & they don't know what your talking about ask for their parts pro. The reason you need to talk to them or one of the managers is because they like to hire a lot of young inexperienced people so they only have to pay minimum wage. I'm an ex manager from one of their stores for that very reason. They have these # crunchers that sit behind a desk and all they care about is the bottom line instead of quality, Knowledgable people.
Good luck.