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Howardnmn

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i' m pretty sure my oil pressure sender failed yesterday (big red "X" over oil pressure icon + audio "OIL PRESSURE, OIL PRESSURE" warning. oil leevel is good, oil clean, went thru 4000 rpm runup.

 

does anyone know replacement Part? (Kavlico, 1/8-27 NPT, 150 PSI, $85, 101693-000)

 

it's on a 2012 Remos w dual skyviews running latest skyview O/S (12.1?)

 

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I'm on my third sender.  The firewall relocation kit from Lockwood is a must IMO to prevent vibration related failures of the sender.  Since I relocated mine it has been fine.  I think a lot of people are using the equivalent VDO sender that is 1/3 the price of the Honeywell.

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Hec the VDO senders are 1/10th the price. You could replace a lot of VDO senders for just one Honeywell. Rotax used Honeywell for a couple of years then moved on. I have a brand new Honeywell if anyone wants it because their Honeywell failed. 

It's funny that some had VDO senders on the engine that never gave them a problem and some did.  I still have my VDO on the engine and don't have any isses. The ones I saw fail most often were the VDO's without the Rotax anti vibration ring. Putting it on the firewall will certainly help with vibration and heat.

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Hi Corey,

 

The VDO senders from Rotax had a heavy brass ring glued on the sender. It was supposed to be for vibration dampening. You could actually heat it up with a heat gun and take it off then silicone it back on another VDO sender. If you bought the VDO sender from Rotax with the ring it was $240 verses $35 from egauges.com without the ring.

 

I have found though that senders without the ring tend last far longer.

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