[Perri]

What is that plug or bung on the side of the basepan for? Not the drain plugs, my basepan has two drain plugs.
1988 5.0 Thanks

 

[teamfour]

If you mean the oilpan, it is the low oil level sensor.

 

[TAZ]

Lee,

I thought that was the oil temp sender, but I never really paid any attention. Well it is now on mine.

I took it out, drilled the old sensor out, tapped it w/ a 3/8" NPT tap and put my Smith Oil Temp Sender there.

- TAZ

 

[Tom Keiser]

I did the same as TAZ, reads low, I'm gonna move it to the remote adapter when I get time. Hey TAZ, did You get the stainless Devil I sent You?
Tom

 

[TAZ]

Tom,

Yeah, I got him. He's great. I've got him hanging on the garage wall for now, watching over the car.

I'm thinking he'd go good at the back of the tranny tunel were it goes up at about a 45deg angle.

BTW, what are you planning on plugging the pan with? If you know the threads of the pan I'd like to know, but I guess you could just plug the bung that taped w/ a 3/8 NPT plug.

- TAZ

[ December 06, 2002, 04:46 PM: Message edited by: TAZ ]

 

[Tom Keiser]

The tranny tunnel sounds like a cool spot. Yep, I will just use a plug for the hole in the oil pan. I thought it would work well there but the gauge reads low all the time. I think the threads on the pan must be Whitworth or something strange, I never could find a standard or metric size that would fit it.

 

[Jim Smith]

To plug the oil level sender hole try a M20 X 1.5 bolt and a rubber gasket.There was an earlier post that stated this was the proper thread.

 

[FFRKing]

I gutted the sensor out of mine and TIG welded the hole shut.

Chris