I got a Ward top end oiler from Schnitz after watching top end oilers go for near new prices on ebay. If you are going to get one you will need to deal with your oil sensor plate. There is a mechanical pressure sensor for your idiot light, and an adhoch recasting to accommodate a oil temperature sensor apparently unique to the 82-83 1100's. I
I know there is a member here that makes custom sensor plates and you can have one of those made, but I took a different route and will share as this is a little cheaper.
In the picture you see the the Ward plate that would have you loose both idiot light and oils temp sender. I has the idea to simply use a brass fitting to tee off for the oil T (the blue anodized thing), but the problems is that the temp sender is so long it blocks any standard brass tee's or other 90 degree fittings.
Solution make a new brass T that is elongated. You can get a machine shop to do this or I used by drill press as a milling machine and made the little critter.
You can play around with orientation, but I was going for low profile and did not want any carburetor interference so I chose what you see in the pictures.
Here is the close up of the install. It has to have to the T installed last (after 1/4 turn of the fitting ); I guess now that I look at it I could have gotten rid of the T using a couple of nipples coming off the sides and a slightly larger block.
This is a pretty low profile and there is a little bit of a hoop on the right had side so I can still see the gauge without the oiler line blocking it.
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