Hi i have been told over and over to install a good set of guages on my truck i would like to install a coolant temp guage a oil temp guage and a fuel pressure guage i know how to install a coolant guage but am not sure on how to install the fuel pressure guage or the oil temp guage on my psd if i buy the guage will it come with everthing i will need to install it and how hard is it to install andy sugestions Thanks also what psi do i need to get for my fuel pressure and what should my fuel pressure be on a stock truck with a new fuel filter

 

If you talk to some of the vendors and tell them what you need, you should get everything with your order. A lot of places sell complete packages, even including color matched spray paint for your gauge pod. Coolant temp should be easy, oil temp shouldn't be much different. Fuel pressure on yours will probably be installed on the fuel bowl under the hood. There are extra "plugs" in the bowl you can remove, put in a fitting (I believe 1/8" NPT), then hook it up to a sender to an electric fuel pressure gauge. You'll want 100psi gauge. 50-55 is about what they should hold stock or modded doesn't matter. It will be important to watch under a heavy load like racing uphill or towing a boat or something. That is when it will usually drop, especially if you're running tunes. Excellent choice on the gauges, those are probably the three most important, and also probably the three that are actually purchased the least. I got boost, trans temp and pyro in mine. If I knew then what I know now, I would have got what you are getting. I just finally ordered myself a fuel pressure gauge.

 

yea i see how to do fuel and coolant but have not found anything on how to put in oil temp. few people say to drill out oil pan and tap but i am not going to do that there hast to be a better way.

 

I thought there would be a better/ easier way myself, but can't find one yet

 

If you add a T fitting to where the pressure fitting is connected to the engine, you can plumb it into the other side of the T ... same idea they use for bypass kits without the billet filter cap.

 

Oil temp you can just get one of those billet caps for the oil filter with an NPT fitting in the top. Or do the T like piperca said.

 

Yep that is what I did put it into the filter cap

 

So i brought my truck to a garage to get my oil temp and coolant temp installed and they called telling me they couldn't do because of rusted senders. They couldn't get the coolant temp one. Whats a way around this keep in mind i'm limited on tools due to out of home state.

 

Get an Edge Insight, by the time you figure the purchase price of the gauges and the time to install, buts much easier and cost effective! Plus you can monitor more things with it!

 

Some guys prefer stand-alone gauges because they're not just doubling what the PCM is already reading.

Plus if I did anything like that, I'd get the Scangauge II, which is cheaper, and even better than the Edge.

20powerstroke05, I'm confused here. What senders are rusty? They should be new senders with your gauges? Where were they trying to mount these? Seems like if you wanted to you could even get a "T" fitting from home depot and rig something up. Splice a coolant line, slide the T in, and put the gauge sender on the third empty portion of the T?