Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

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SlayerTy

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So I just got a new mechanical carbon fiber fuel pressure gauge and it looks great! However, I'm not sure which tubing kit I need. Auto Meter sells a 3 ft. kit (part #3227) and a 6 ft. kit (part #3228). I'd like to buy the 3 foot kit and save $30 if I can get away with it, but if I need the extra 3 feet then I guess the 6 foot kit is for me. Any help is always appreciated!
Sean
 
bezerk

bezerk

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

is this a mechanical gauge? if so.. i wouldn't use it inside the cab or anything
 
bezerk

bezerk

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

sorry, it is mechanical...get an electric one..otheriwse i dunno
 
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SlayerTy

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

bezerk said:
is this a mechanical gauge? if so.. i wouldn't use it inside the cab or anything
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Yes, I was planning on mounting it in the cab with a boost gauge. I would have thought that an electric fuel pressure gauge would be more prone to causing a fire. But, this is the first time I have dealt with after market gauges.
 
bezerk

bezerk

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

well, i would go with an electric one if i was you, it's a pita to get your "feullines" inside the cab + if it bursts, you have feul inside the cab.. an electric one is so much eacher in anyway
 
ShuggsRR

ShuggsRR

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

Yeah thats scary running gasoline inside the cab. The elec ones are alot more expensive but they keep the fuel under the hood.
 
TYHOGG

TYHOGG

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

Fuel gauges inside the cab will not pass NHRA spec. with out and isolater, so forget about trying to run at the track unless they miss it in tech. I run the Autometer Procomp ultralite elec fuel gauge off the test port on the fuel rail, it has a small sensor and a 3 wire pigtail that connects to the gauge, much simpilar install, and safer.
 
cloneman315

cloneman315

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

i ran mine in the cab with braided stainless line and it was ok ,but i def wouldnt do it ,plus it make a real nasty sound in the truck when driving it drives u nuts
 
mandingo

mandingo

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

On my GN i had one mounted with the steel braided line going through the hood vent and the gauge was on a bracket connected on the back lip of my hood, looked nice on the outside, i wouldnt take a chance with it in the cab :2cents:
 
Sy Guy 0024

Sy Guy 0024

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

I know you're not "supposed to" run the mechanical FP gage inside the cab, but I've had mine in the truck for almost 5 years now w/o problem.

That being said, I'll now proceed to burn myself to a crisp the next time I start my truck up. :)

Seriously though, I don't really pay attention to my FP gage, primarily just my boost gage. If I could do it over again, I'd probably just mount a FP gage on the fuel rail and be done with it.
 
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socalblue

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

Sy Guy 0024 said:
I know you're not "supposed to" run the mechanical FP gage inside the cab, but I've had mine in the truck for almost 5 years now w/o problem.

That being said, I'll now proceed to burn myself to a crisp the next time I start my truck up. :)

Seriously though, I don't really pay attention to my FP gage, primarily just my boost gage. If I could do it over again, I'd probably just mount a FP gage on the fuel rail and be done with it.
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:rotf: burn myself to a crisp, good one!!!
 
skipztt

skipztt

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

with the isolater you can put the guage inside to pass nhra tech...if you even care about that. without the isolater your not supposed to but....thats the chance you take. cause if it blows its going to shoot fuel all over you...and thats not a good thing. i would get the isolater ..but there expensive though.
 
Loeryder

Loeryder

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

I would sell it and get an electric.

By the time you buy the lines and the isolator you could have had the nice full sweep 0-100 electric.
 
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Don B.

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

I just put an electric one in this weekend.
I got fittings for the sensor at the hardware store, it took 2 adaptors.
The steel braided line sounds like a good idea.
Check out a local Ace store.
There are four engine items I don't want in my cab:
1. Fuel
2. Hot motor oil
3. exhaust fumes
4. engine coolant
 
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Lynn D. Brown

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Re: Auto Meter Fuel Pressure Gauge

Hey Guys - been there, done that a few times already !!

I put the mechanicals in my GN & TTA with an isolator ~ 10 yrs ago because the electronic ones at that time weren't worth an S. However now they have much better sensors w more accuracy - and they cost more, of course. One of my mechanicals got squirrely so I replaced it with the newer AM electronic, and guess what I found - the gasoline had broken thru the isolator and was now in the cab. In fact I'm not sure that AM still makes them, and if so I can certainly see why. I just disconnected my GN one when I put new 60 # injectors in. Now I guess I should replace the other one.

In short, don't put Mechanicals in the cab even w isolators !! And to think, I was just slip & sliding around at Palmdale raceway - which is closing and really sucks now. Came close to the guardrails a # of times - Damn.
 
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