Guage connection on block - location?

[Jim Gathmann <jim_gathmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a 3.3L V6 (FWD, early-late 90's engine, used a
little in AC bodies, but mainly in Mopar Vans).
--- kenyon wills <imperialist60@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim, you don't mention the block that you're dealing
> with. 
> Please write back for confirmation from others who
> have
> your block.
> 
> The 440's and my Chev 350 have the oil sensor
> threaded into
> the block at the rear of the cyinder bank valley
> next
> to/under the firewall, pointing down at the flywheel
> at 12
> o'clock on the rear of the block.  My parts guy
> wasimpressed because my 73 has TWO threaded sensors,
> one
> for oil pressure guage and a seperate one for the
> idiot
> light.  He seemd to think that this was uncommonly
> luxurious (yep, that's an Imperial), having a muscle
> car
> background as a machinist and knowing Mopar engines
> well.
> 
> Anyway, that is where the existing idiot light
> sensor
> probably plugs/threads in, and you might be able to
> appropriate or connect both in a T configuration
> with what
> you already have....
> 
> -Kenyon
> 
> 
> 
> --- Jim Gathmann <jim_gathmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  I went out today and got a coolant temp guage and
> a
> > oil pressure guage (both machinical ones).
> > 
> > Problem: instructions do not mention where or how
> to
> > hook the two guages up to the car- they say to
> > "attach/screw into engine block"
> > 
> >  The coolant temp sensor I plan on putting in the
> > radiator after drilling a hole in the top of the
> > radiator or radiator cap.
> > 
> > The oil pressure guage basically consists of a
> small
> > plastic tube with brass ends- one brass end screws
> > into the guage, the other goes into what appears
> to be
> > a empty/cutted/bored out bolt. This bolt must then
> be
> > screwed into the oil system- somewhere after the
> oil
> > pump (engine block?). But where? Any ideas on
> these
> > two guages??? Never worked with a manual guage at
> all
> > before (I been keeping it electric.. until now:)
> > 
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