New Melling Performance Oil Pump Coming

[Truckzor]

Old gauge? As in stock?

I'm thinking about just going with this: https://www.autometer.com/universal-triple-2-1-16-dash-pod.html

I need to take some measurements, but it looks promising.

Here's mine, currently (wish that Roush gauge had a black bezel) :

My current set up is six aftermarket C2s on their own dimmer. I have boost/vac, fuel pressure, air/fuel, oil temp, oil pressure, and water temperature.

Once I get the pod figured out, I am planning to add: intercooler water temp, volts, and tranny temp. I already had the custom gauges made so they all match the OEM gauges.

I also have a Boss 302 Laguna Seca pod from Ford Racing in hand. Just debating mounting this myself or going with the other setup you found. Kind of afraid to hack up my own center pod.

 

[HAP]

Where do you install the oil pressure sending unit?

R,
HAP

 

[Dane]

My current set up is six aftermarket C2s on their own dimmer. I have boost/vac, fuel pressure, air/fuel, oil temp, oil pressure, and water temperature.

Once I get the pod figured out, I am planning to add: intercooler water temp, volts, and tranny temp. I already had the custom gauges made so they all match the OEM gauges.

I also have a Boss 302 Laguna Seca pod from Ford Racing in hand. Just debating mounting this myself or going with the other setup you found. Kind of afraid to hack up my own center pod.

Those vent pods would get me divorced.

I'm also curious about the oil pressure sending unit. My question above about tranny temperature was along the same line. I see about a 20-30 degree difference in my aftermarket gauge versus the stock (digital) readout. I attribute this to the sender position. My sender is in my pan (oversized AFE pan). I have a double size tranny cooler, so I figure that the temp of the fluid in the pan must be significantly lower than wherever the stock sender reads (somewhere in the tranny itself?). I'd sure like to know what other folks gauges read though. I've found the tranny to be the most concerning gauge for towing in the Raptor.

 

[Truckzor]

Those vent pods would get me divorced.

I'm also curious about the oil pressure sending unit. My question above about tranny temperature was along the same line. I see about a 20-30 degree difference in my aftermarket gauge versus the stock (digital) readout. I attribute this to the sender position. My sender is in my pan (oversized AFE pan). I have a double size tranny cooler, so I figure that the temp of the fluid in the pan must be significantly lower than wherever the stock sender reads (somewhere in the tranny itself?). I'd sure like to know what other folks gauges read though. I've found the tranny to be the most concerning gauge for towing in the Raptor.

Good questions. I wonder if your sensor is positioned in the pan in such a way that it's picking up the temp primarily from fluid that has just returned from the trans cooler. If that is the case I actually don't think it's bad information. And honestly I don't think it's bad information even if it's not. The sensor in the pan is definitely reading the temperature of the fluid in the pan and yes I do think the OEM sender is picking it up from somewhere internally, which would make it hotter.

Your temps on the OEM gauge I assume have come down since adding the bigger cooler and larger pan?

 

[HAP]

I'm gonna find a way to install a temp gauge in my PS reservoir as well. Even if its just a manual gauge under the hood...

 

[Truckzor]

Where do you install the oil pressure sending unit?

R,
HAP

It's in a collar between the oil filter and the block.

I'm gonna find a way to install a temp gauge in my PS reservoir as well. Even if its just a manual gauge under the hood...

That's a great idea.

 

[Dane]

Your temps on the OEM gauge I assume have come down since adding the bigger cooler and larger pan?

Well, it's hard to say. I only had a problem twice - both towing my RV up a nasty Colorado mountain in traffic where I had to go slow. That's the key, if I get stuck going uphill slowly towing the tranny would get very hot. I never got into the red, but I was getting close. As soon as I could get moving, no problem. I haven't had that situation happen again since the modifications. I did tow all over Wyoming with no issues, but there were no mountains, so it wasn't an accurate test. I suspect it will be a significant difference though and I simply won't see the issue again. It definitely runs a bit cooler in general and takes longer to get warm.

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It's in a collar between the oil filter and the block.



That's a great idea.

A collar? Like an aftermarket piece made just for that? Splain please.

 

[Truckzor]

A collar? Like an aftermarket piece made just for that? Splain please.

It looks something like that. (I just googled and that was the first one that came up)

 

[Dane]

It looks something like that. (I just googled and that was the first one that came up)

So that's exactly what it's for? Just to allow you to slap a sending unit in there? Hell, that's simple. I can do that. Where'd you get it?

 

[Truckzor]

So that's exactly what it's for? Just to allow you to slap a sending unit in there? Hell, that's simple. I can do that. Where'd you get it?

My engine guy sourced it for me. I can find out but from a quick google it looked like there were a bunch out there.

And yes that is exactly what it's made/used for.