Leaky Oil pressure sender

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Leaky Oil pressure sender

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Its taken 3 1/2 years and I am down to one last leak and its the oil pressure sender. I originally thought it was leaking from the main part of the sender so I pulled it off last night and put some pressure on it with the air hose and could not find a leak. So I am thinking it may have just been leaking around the threads the leak was slow enough that you could not see it when it happened to tell where it was coming from. It was tight against the block and there were remains of some sort of seal maybe an o-ring? My question is how do these seal to the block and could you use pipe tape or would that be a no no. Tape seems risky but possible. I have a new one ordered but it shows no mention of a seal. Its for a 22r for those that dont know.
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Re: Leaky Oil pressure sender

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there should be a gasket or an o-ring between the sender and the block IIRC
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Post by MILLER »

Would getting a copper gasket work?
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Ghetto batter?
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Post by yotacowboy »

i think there's supposed to be a copper washer, like on all the fuel fittings.
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Post by tsmall07 »

Dieselram wrote:Ghetto batter?
I don't know if that will work due to the pressure. I'd get a thin copper washer.
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I could not find any type of gasket/o-ring that looked like it would work so I used teflon tape and its holding fine.
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