Oil temp guage, installation for newbie Options

[Always Looking]

I have a 72 1.7 FI. I bought the VDO oil temp guage from PP, but am not real sure how to install. Any references would be much appreciated. Oh yeah, no previous oil temp guage, just idiot light.

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[lapuwali]

There are basically three common ways of doing this. One is to use a sender that takes the place of the drain plug. This is a common VW part, available from many Bug places. It's adds a bit of hassle to draining your oil, but it's a reasonably quick and painless install. Another is to duplicate the factory method on the later 2.0 engines, which is to buy a "taco plate" (the round black plate on the bottom of the engine off to one side (not the one in the center)), which has a hole for a temp sender. You can also just drill your stock taco plate for the sender, and use a pair of O-rings and a nut to secure it. The last is to make up a tee for your oil pressure switch, and put the oil temp sender on the other arm of the tee.