I am looking for an oil pressure switch that looks similar to the one pictured below. I bought one at one point and time from autozone but I can't remember what kinda car I told them I had to get one. I think I told them like a corvette or something but I have tired doing that again and I can't seem to find the damn thing. Anyone have any ideas? It's just an oil pressure switch that activates a light when oil pressure drops below a certain psi.

 

Looks like a part # PS-15 from CARQUEST..... 1/8 thread 3~9 PSI normally closed...

 

Cool I looked that up and that looks right but I can't find that part number in the checker or autozone database. Is there a cross reference or what kinda vehicle do those sensors come on?

 

An ACDelco Part # d8050 looks like that and fits tons of GM cars (like a 1988 Caprice with a 350, for example).

 

Thanks Rob, I pulled that up on autozones website, oil pressure switch for a 1988 Caprice 5.0L and it gave me this pressure switch which is just a bit long from what I'm looking for...



How can I cross reference that D8050 into something that the mentally challenged people at Autozone can find?

 

Sorry, I did not realize you needed a stubby one.

 

Nah it's cool, I actually didn't realize that they had longer ones like that... But yeah I am definitely looking for one like I posted in my original post...

 

The range varies of different makes of vehicles..... Its from an older style.... Might try searching around 65~73 Chevys, Fords, Dodge, etc......

 

Just look at the Zone site...lol What a joke..... They dont list it, but I found it at Summit???? And CARQUEST.... O'Rielly's NOGO...

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

Advance shows it...

http://www.partsamerica.com/ProductD...artNumber=PS15

 

Yeah I bet they have it in their system SOMEWHERE probably just under some retarded part number!

 

http://198.208.187.182/internet/Part...cpartnbr=D1832

1987 Caprice with a 4.3 V8 (and lots of others)

 

Nice, ok I found one on Autozone. It's for a 1987 Chevy Caprice, 5.0L V8. They don't list a 4.3 V8 just V6. But in any case their part number is PS117 which shows this...



But while doing a little more looking around on the Caprice sensors I came up with this sensor as well... OP23301



It has two prongs. What's the difference? Does the one with one prong just give you a ground output when the circuit closes and the one with two prongs just closes the circuit on the two terminals so basically that way you could use whatever wires you wanted?

 

Oops, yeah, that should have been 4.3 V6.

As far as the multiple terminals go, you would probably have to test it to be sure what it does (unless you know from the application).

 

That 2 prong looks like a 1/4" thread not 1/8th......

 

Alright well I called and talked to someone at Niehoff today and it looks like pretty much all of the DOUBLE PRONG switches are Normally Open, and the SINGLE PRONG ones are Normally Closed. So I guess I will be going with a double prong then because a normally open circuit is what I am looking for. I didn't realize that the single prong switches are normally closed.

Also that PS15 is a NC switch with a 3-8.3psi range, and most of the double prong ones are NO with about a 2-9psi range which seems pretty damn low to me. I was thinking something more in the 10-15psi range but I dunno. Seems like once the oil pressure got that low it's probably already gonna be too late...