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So, to get to this OP switch, we took this off. It's much easier to get to there. You don't necessarily need to feel like reaching up and around. But it's pretty much located at this angle. All right, remove this stuff out of the way. You can see where it mounts into right where my fingers are right here. Okay. So, you're going to need your oil pressure switch socket. It's a special socket. Slide it over it, and then we'll remove it. Before we do that, we need to, of course, disconnect the wiring. I'll see if I can get it disconnected, and I'll show you. There it is.
That's what it looks like right there. Just grab this tab, and then I pulled it off. Easy peasy. Set that aside where we can find it. Here's the special socket I was talking about. As you can tell, it's not just a plain old six-point socket or anything. Let's see if I can get this in here, and bring my socket down along the back.
That slides right over. Once it's nice and loose, I'm going to go ahead and get this back off of there. It's important to take note of approximately how many turns it took to remove this because you want to remember that. It wasn't necessarily screwed all the way into the point, it was bottomed out with the engine. You can tell by how far the markings go up the tape here. It only goes up about halfway up the threaded area.
It's already got the tape on it. You don't have to worry about that. It's going to help seal it. I'm going to start this in by hand before I put my ratchet on, of course. Okay. Okay, that's approximately halfway. That feels great. Get my ratchet back off of here. Get the socket off of there. I'm just going to feel...This feels good. Perfect. Grab that wiring. Got our wiring here. Let's go ahead and get that connected in. Perfect. Awesome. If you moved any of this wiring around, just make sure that nothing is unplugged. That looks great. Awesome.
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All right friends. To get started, we need to obviously access the rear area of the engine. To get to that, let's get this right out of the way. There's gonna be a 10-millimeter headed bolt straight down right here. Go ahead and remove that. Ours is broken so we're not necessarily worried about it. After that, we're gonna loosen up this clamp and get this right off. Set this aside. Now to get to your OP switch, it's gonna be located right behind the distributor right here. I'm just gonna go ahead and pull this cap out of the way because it's gonna make it easier for the video. You don't necessarily need to take any of this apart though. Just go ahead and reach on back there. Next thing you would wanna do is disconnect the wiring that goes to it. Always check your electrical connectors. Make sure you don't see any funny colors. We'll go ahead and set that aside and now we'll use our oil pressure switch socket. As you can tell, you're gonna need a special socket to go ahead and get your oil pressure sensor off of here. I'm just gonna go ahead and unscrew this so it's nice and loose. There it is friends. Just real quick, I wanted to show you, the original one wasn't screwed in so it's completely bottomed out against anything.
It's essentially about three quarters of the way up the threads. So we're gonna do the same exact thing for the new one. Essentially, just go past where the pipe threading is. All right. Now it's gonna be time to install our brand new oil pressure sensor. I'm just gonna go ahead and line this up by hand. I'm gonna put it in a few good threads, that way there I know that I'm completely lined up and I'm not cross-threaded. Then I'm gonna move along to snugging it up. Just keep in mind that we don't want it completely bottomed out. All right. So I could feel it definitely seemed like it wanted to stop there. I'm looking at the threads and I can tell that that's in approximately just as far as the original one is. I think that looks perfect. Let's continue. Now it's gonna be time to plug in the oil pressure sensor. Okay friends. Now it's time to get this back on here. Just something I'm gonna mention real quick is you're gonna have your clamp and then over on this side, you should have that mounting bolt. Ours was broken so I don't necessarily have the bolt, but I'm just gonna go ahead and slide this right on here. Line it up so the mounting bolt's here. Go ahead and start that in. We're gonna move along to snugging this up. Now the next thing we need to do is start up the truck. We're gonna pay attention to our oil gauge and make sure it's working properly. If it stays down at the zero, it's not working properly. Perfect.
