getting out bolt for oil press gauge

[Keliente]

I searched, and I can't find the size....it looks to me like a 1/4th" hex head, but when I tried this, it seemed to strip immediately!! Am I using the wrong size or what?

[GrandMasterKhan]

Well the cougar uses Metric Bolts:shrug:

[silverfrost99]

I just did a quick search to and found nothing, I know it used to be here, I printed it off when I did mine. I dont remember what size it was, but I am thinking 3/8" for some strange reason. GMK is correct about metric, but i think that is what I used. I can look when I go to the garage, then I'll post later today if you havent gotten an answer yet.

[gyger]

I swear when I removed mine it was metric
but 3/8's sounds familar too:shrug:

sorry

[BrantlyJ]

can't help with what size it is but..... 3/8 is larger than 1/4 :banghead:

[Afterhours]

If it's the same size as the Zetec............it's a 5mm hex.

[silverfrost99]

yes 3/8 IS larger and since the bolt is a hex head, the socket goes inside the hex, making the 1/4 inch strip, so therefore, shutup, you need a larger on than 1/4 inch if it strips.

Thank you!

[Keliente]

It's 6mm!! :) :)

[silverfrost99]

Good Job! Have fun with the gauges. The sender unit went in fine for me AFTER I had to cut the PCV tray tube down a bit, it was too close, I couldnt thread the sending unit in. But its all good now, oh, make sure you tighten it up enough, mine leaked a little and smelled like burnt oil the next couple of days, then I went back in and retightened it a little.

[nadthomas]

are you using a mechnical oil pressure gauge, if so could you put up a how to. I have some gauges sitting on my desk waiting to be installed but I have no idea how to install them.

Thanks

[BrantlyJ]

Originally posted by: silverfrost99
yes 3/8 IS larger and since the bolt is a hex head, the socket goes inside the hex, making the 1/4 inch strip, so therefore, shutup, you need a larger on than 1/4 inch if it strips.

Thank you!

Actually a hex head bolt looks like any standard bolt with the 5 sided head. The correct name for what Keliente is probably talking about is called a socket head cap screw. so you shutup, and your quite welcome :)

[silverfrost99]

Originally posted by: BrantlyJ

Originally posted by: silverfrost99
yes 3/8 IS larger and since the bolt is a hex head, the socket goes inside the hex, making the 1/4 inch strip, so therefore, shutup, you need a larger on than 1/4 inch if it strips.

Thank you!

Actually a hex head bolt looks like any standard bolt with the 5 sided head. The correct name for what Keliente is probably talking about is called a socket head cap screw. so you shutup, and your quite welcome :)

:grouphug:

I was just pissed about something earlier in the day.

[Iceotron]

Just for my own piece of mind, why did you go with the mechancial oil pres guage?

price?

I ask b\c if something goes wrong you very well could end up with oil all over your interior. And that's not a pretty site!!

[nadthomas]

Originally posted by: Iceotron
Just for my own piece of mind, why did you go with the mechanical oil pres gauge?

price?

I ask b\c if something goes wrong you very well could end up with oil all over your interior. And that's not a pretty site!!

Ah, the all mighty dollar

yeah it was the price. I got them in the group buy a while back. Oil, Temp, Volt for about $50.

So could anyone explain how to hook up a mechanical oil pressure gauge.

[silverfrost99]

Originally posted by: Keliente
It's 6mm!! :) :)

I was cleaning my toolbox out and I came across the allen key socket I used for mine, it was 7 mm for mine!?! Maybe a difference in the years?

[01blkcat]

6mm on my 2001... I just checked :biggrin: