oil pressure, temp and level senders

Level 7 User Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 224

i am led to belive the R19 only had 2 senders as against the clios 3, could someone tell me which sender is missing please and where it should be located, had a bottom end sieze on the clio and got an r19 engine to replace it (swapping all ancilleries) and would like all 3 guages to work

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

the pressure sender is round the rear of the engine on both the clio and 19 engines, so thats the same.

The 19 has the level sender round the front and a 2 spade plug on it.

the clio has a combined level and temp sender in the same place. There sno plug on the sender instead it goes to a plug on the loom.

Heres a pic, this is bens clio 16V btw, the sender screwed into the block bewteen the 2 hoses brown with wires coming out

Level 7 User Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 224

cheers chris, so i'm presumin i can just plugthe sender in from the clio loom and it will work fine?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

yes. Unscrew the 19's level sender then screw in the clio one.

Level 7 User Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 224

good man

Affiliate Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 360

Chris, is the 19 level sender going to be the same as the one fitted to the 2.0 16v Coupes? I only ask as i'm wanting to fit an oil temp guage and I was wondering if the existing level sensor would also do the oil temp sending when it's finished fannying about with the oil level?

Mick

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

the megane and 19 senders are the same, you need a clio one to get the oil temp unless you fit another sender elsewhere.

Affiliate Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 360

Yeah that's what I thought. I guess I could weld a bolt to the sump but i can't be fussed with draining the oil and taking the sump off to do it... too messy Embarassed

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

fit a clio one, change the wire, you only need to chop the megane looms plug off then use another plug, the other wire is for the temp, so run that to a gauge.

Affiliate Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 360

Just called Renault up.... Â£111 for one Shocked

Think i'll be taking a trip to the breakers yard later today to raid a numerous 16v Clios. Will also take the Clio's connector and part of the loom with it Wink

Cheers

Mick

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good man.

I wondered how much it was!

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Well that was an easy way to get filthy and spend Â£10... better than spending a further Â£100 plus the dreaded VAT!

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take a pic of it eh!

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Batteries are on charge chap - Will take a pic of it and the re-positioned IK and feed later as i've got to remove the dash for painting as it's a nasty blue colour in an otherwise Black and grey environment Embarassed

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megane interior colours are feckign ming ain't they! Ambers is green, simons is blue.

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Well the doner Coupe was the same colour as Pete's so I guess it was bareable but in the 19 it looks gash so i'm plasti-priming the lot and colour coding it tomorrow if the weather gets any better although it's starting to rain so i'm not getting the car out tonight.

Pic of the newly aquired oil level/temp sender is >>HERE<<

Not entirely sure how it works but I can see a very thin wire and some kind of sensor at the bottom so i'm guessing the wire does the level and the sensor does the temp?

Mick

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yeah the wire actually has a float on it!

the pics tiny and I can't make it bigger but it doesn't look much different fromt he normal ones.

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I would upload it to my webspace but i'm at Leanne's and don't have my FTP details so can't upload it full size. Want me to email it to you?

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nah, not that important, it was just curiosity really!

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Will get some pics of the IK setup shortly as the weather is clearing up a tad!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

its been nice and sunny here for about 2 hours now!