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fiveohgo
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autometer guage so its accurate. what is the problem with this? should i be worried?
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Posts: 62 | From: East Bay | Registered: Jan 2005
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asskickn88
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What does it come up to when you drive? My 96 is about that at idle but goes way up when I drive. You need 10#s of oil pressure for every 1k of RPM you are spinning so 20#s at 8-900 RPM you have enough
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CMELEVU
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yeah that seems normal. Mine is 25 at idle.
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adower
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What if it drops to 0 at idle? Whenever I idle all my gauges drop low. Normal driving my oil stays around the A on where the normal is written.
Also when I get WOT the oil pressure rises really high. So im wondering when everyone else is at idle all the gauges drop ?
[ January 29, 2007, 01:55 PM: Message edited by: adower ]
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fiveohgo
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it goes up to 40 on a tap of the gas.. so its normal
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86BackInBlack
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hmmm, i do have a high volume pump. mines 90 at idle when its cold then 40 once its warm. sometimes when i wot it will go up to 70+
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CMELEVU
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high volume or high pressure? theres a difference.
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asskickn88
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Originally posted by adower:
What if it drops to 0 at idle? Whenever I idle all my gauges drop low. Normal driving my oil stays around the A on where the normal is written.
Also when I get WOT the oil pressure rises really high. So im wondering when everyone else is at idle all the gauges drop ?
There is a problem with the gauge or sending unit. Yours was checked with a manual gauge and had plenty of pressure at idle, just never got around to tracking the problem down.
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It's time for the country to do what Obama's own father did.
Abandon him.
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adower
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Originally posted by asskickn88:
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Originally posted by adower:
What if it drops to 0 at idle? Whenever I idle all my gauges drop low. Normal driving my oil stays around the A on where the normal is written.
Also when I get WOT the oil pressure rises really high. So im wondering when everyone else is at idle all the gauges drop ?
There is a problem with the gauge or sending unit. Yours was checked with a manual gauge and had plenty of pressure at idle, just never got around to tracking the problem down.
Cool, something to work on before the superbowl!
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