Where to mount an oil temp sender on a 350 vortec motor?
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Can you mount it to the oil pressure tap on the top rear of the block or should it go down near the oil filter?
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top rear is the common place on the sm blocks and if you use an alarm sender or fuel pump shut off mount on side above filter
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Believe me to get true oil temp readings they must be taken from a remote cooler setup or a remote filter housing. The problem with block mounting is it will read block temp, it should be mounted remotely in the oil stream. Some after market coolers have a fitting for a sender, you can also poke around the find an old Merc remote filter housing off a Merc Hi Perf setup. My 300 Tempest filter has both a sender boss and pass through ports for dual filters.
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