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Old 05-17-2010, 11:53 PM
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Question nylon or copper?

Wish one is best for a autometer oil pressure gauge? Nylon tubing or copper tubing?
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Old 05-18-2010, 12:36 AM
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copper would be more reliable but if you find a higher quality nylon one it would be just as good. (not that cheap white one that the gauge comes with.
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so.. autometer copper tubing should work. thanks
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ya that would be fine.
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ewww i hate using the mechanical gauges....but if i were to choose id do copper....imagine 90 psi of oil pressure bursting out a crack in nylon tube...

personally i opted for the kind that uses a sender unit that way i dont ever have oil shooting into my car
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that kind of gauge cost more than $100 right? and does it fit in a triple gauge pod?
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the one you said is the autometer 5727?
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i bought a glowshift oil prerssure gauge for like 36 dollars its digitaly analog
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Iv been using the nylon tubing that came with my autometer cobalt oil pressure gauge. Never had a problem yet and iv been running it for almost a year.

I use to have all electric glowshift gauges but they were inaccurate. Close but inaccurate. Guess you get what you pay for. Oh yea, I had the Elite series gauges.
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