RE: Bearcat & fuel pressure gauge mounting

[Mike Hutchison <mhutchis@wimsey.com>]

> What's a Stutz Bearcat?  Knowing you, I presume it must be a mountain 
bike?

I believe a Bearcat is a rather rare car from several decades ago...  very 
nice looking, if I remember correctly.

> I'll try to keep this as short as posssible. I tried installing my
> Cyberdyne Fuel pressure gauge and I'm still having problems. The stock
> fuel rail has 1/4 male flare ends, whereas the cyberdyne sender unit has
> 1/8 male pipe thread. NO ONE (home depot, ACE, etcc..) has an adapter.

Richard Chan gave me this solution for my '85 T-Type...  use an OTC 7430 
adapter, it's a 90 deg. adapter that screws right onto the Schrader valve 
outlet on the fuel rail, and has a male fitting at the other end.  I'm not 
sure if the end is 1/8 pipe thread or not, but my local NAPA/Auto Marine 
store had a female-to-female fitting that matched up the Cyberdyne sender 
and adapter perfectly.  Works like a hot damn (whatever a hot damn is...).

The adapter also has a plunger to depress the schrader valve when you screw 
it on, so you can quickly remove it and hook up a fuel pressure gauge while 
working under the hood.


Mike
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