Liquid Filled Gauges????

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Liquid Filled Gauges????

#1 Post by 79 Camaro » Tue May 30, 2006 7:32 pm

hey guys

I was just looking in Jegs at the Gauges and I was wanting to know your guys thoughts on Liquid filled apposed to regular. I have heard wierd stuff about liquid filled. Something about they can give you odd readings when the oil in the guage heats up or when it is cold. Please let me know your oppinions.

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#2 Post by Craig W. » Tue May 30, 2006 10:46 pm

Liquid filled gages need to have the face vented from time to time in order to read accurately. So they can fool you.
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#3 Post by 79 Camaro » Wed May 31, 2006 12:28 am

Sooo... Most people probably perfer regular guages then...
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#4 Post by John_Heard » Wed May 31, 2006 7:07 am

I don't like them. Especially when the little plug gets lost and that glycerin gets all over the place, like that back of my suburban last weekend. Had a plug come out of a nitrous bottle gauge and it leaked all over the place. I had one of them fail Sunday, right before first round of eliminations. We just got called to the lanes and I got in the car and was wondering why in the heck the nitrous bottle gauge was sweating.. Turned out the gauge was leaking pretty bad and had to switch bottles real quick like.

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Liquid Guages

#5 Post by CoMax Racing » Wed May 31, 2006 9:47 am

I like the liquid guages for my application (Blown Alcohol car) simply because the car vibrates so much just from the engine running the normal guage are hard to read. The liquid dampens the vibrations and make the guages easy to read. As far as the liquid in them I have really never had a failure or any leakage.

One vote for liquid guages.

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#6 Post by 79 Camaro » Wed May 31, 2006 6:05 pm

Sounds like Mr. Heard could have had a lil better weekend without the ol liquid filled gauges. :x

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#7 Post by sbcnova » Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:27 pm

My liquid filled gauge falls about 2-3 psi after the engine heats up pretty good. But its just a little cheapo jegs gauge so I can get a good idea while setting the fuel pressure regualtor.

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