perkin's 6354 turbo gauge.

[moonraker 36]

hi. can anyone tell me were the connetion is for the turbo boost preasure gauge is?
on a perkins 6354( not the oil preasure ontop of the turbo)as the engine's were removed from the boat before i aquired it.

any help would be grateful.

 

[aquapower]

They usually fit into the inlet manifold look for the blanking plug

 

[omega2]

are you sure the sender you are looking at is oil pressure?? a picture would help.

on a ford it is on the intake manifold, the picture is not very clear but it's the sender in front of the crossover, looks like an oil pressure gauge, but it aint.

 

[moonraker 36]

thank's for the head's up,
going down to the boat today so will let you know.

 

[moonraker 36]

can only find the glow plug in the inlet manifold.
but the turbo boost gauages must have been connected up at some point.
anybody got a moonraker with these engine's!

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Mine ISTR are on the inlet manifold not far dwonstream of the flange there the air inlet joins to the manifold casting. Never really been an issue, I dont think they work and would not test them upstream of teddington

 

[burgundyben]

On mine the boost gauge sender is within an inch of the glow plug on the side of the inlet manifold. You cant miss it...

T6.354's did previously have oil temp senders fitted onto the tops of the turbos, risk of the capilliary breaking and hot oil spurting all over the place and hence catching fire was too high for the insurance companies and so in most cases they have been blanked off.

 

[moonraker 36]

haha. their is a small allen key blanking plug just to the side of the glow plug.thanks burgundyben, ontop of the turbo's it is a copper pipe that run's to the turbo oil preasure gauage they are a mechanical gauge not electric.
the turbo's have been wrapped with with turbo wrap so should be any prob's with fire risk as you can more or less put your hand on the wrap when the engine's are hot.
thanks every one for reply's