Oil pressure gage for a f15

[Bohlrichard]

Is there a way to add an oil pressure gage and maintain the alarm to a yahama f15 outboard 2006

[boscoe99]

Yes there is.

[Bohlrichard]

My thought was to build a "T" type oil header using a nipple, T fitting and adapter to convert to NPT (so that I can use a readily available oil pressure sending unit)

I am having trouble with the following info.

Size of the threaded portion of the Yahama oil sender unit
Source for what I believe may be metric pipe fittings and a conversion to NPT

[boscoe99]

The US should have gone metric three or more decades ago. Shame on us.

Remove the oil pressure switch and measure the thread size. Sears, NAPA and others sell a thread pitch gauge.

Use Goggle to find metric to NPT conversion fittings. It is full of them.

Metric to NPT Thread Adapters: Aluminum, Black Nylon, Nickel Plated Brass & 316 Stainless Steel

What did we do before there was Google?

[99yam40]

we use to run down the local part store and asked them for what we wanted, so they could tell us they could not find it in their catalogs

[boscoe99]

we use to run down the local part store and asked them for what we wanted, so they could tell us they could not find it in their catalogs

I remember knowing some old time parts guys that had catalogs in their minds. Give then a conceptual idea as to what you were looking for and they would provide the name of the supplier and the part number.

Or better still, give you a better way of doing what you wanted to do.

Alas, those guys are long gone.

[99yam40]

yep all of those guys and the stores have been replaced with ones that could care less.

luckily we have google now so we can look ourselves

[boscoe99]

If I don't go online to the Home Depot website, and find exactly where product is being held within the store, 99% of the yahoos working there (if I can get ones attention) can't tell me if they have stuff or where it might be found.

I guess we are getting what we pay for in life. Cheaper products and cheaper still customer support.

[pstephens46]

Sometimes you pay way more for a lot less customer service.
I.E West Marine......guess some locations are better than others.

[rodbolt17]

actually some of us do still keep catalogs and such in their minds .