Help! Oil pressure sender
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From: Lakewood Colorado
Help! Oil pressure sender
For 75.
Oil pressure gauge is pegged high. Worked fine prior to work below. Only disconnected sender wire unthreaded sender, installed tee reinstalled sender, reattached wire.
Installed oil pressure safety switch today to ensure fuel pump shuts off if no oil pressure. Oil pressure sender and safety switch are now Tee'd from block. Switch works. Gauge doesn't.
Did I hose up the sender or did I tank the gauge?
Is there a simple way to fix?
Oil pressure gauge is pegged high. Worked fine prior to work below. Only disconnected sender wire unthreaded sender, installed tee reinstalled sender, reattached wire.
Installed oil pressure safety switch today to ensure fuel pump shuts off if no oil pressure. Oil pressure sender and safety switch are now Tee'd from block. Switch works. Gauge doesn't.
Did I hose up the sender or did I tank the gauge?
Is there a simple way to fix?
Race Director
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 16,528
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From: Dayton, Ohio
Originally Posted by vettecrazy88
For 75.
Oil pressure gauge is pegged high. Worked fine prior to work below. Only disconnected sender wire unthreaded sender, installed tee reinstalled sender, reattached wire.
Installed oil pressure safety switch today to ensure fuel pump shuts off if no oil pressure. Oil pressure sender and safety switch are now Tee'd from block. Switch works. Gauge doesn't.
Did I hose up the sender or did I tank the gauge?
Is there a simple way to fix?
Oil pressure gauge is pegged high. Worked fine prior to work below. Only disconnected sender wire unthreaded sender, installed tee reinstalled sender, reattached wire.
Installed oil pressure safety switch today to ensure fuel pump shuts off if no oil pressure. Oil pressure sender and safety switch are now Tee'd from block. Switch works. Gauge doesn't.
Did I hose up the sender or did I tank the gauge?
Is there a simple way to fix?
Last edited by ...Roger...; Jul 2, 2006 at 11:05 PM.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,154
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From: St Augustine FL
I have change my sender twice and have been getting funky readings. The Needle on the gauge jumps all over the place on startup and settles down to about 35 psi then as the engine warms to operating temp the oil pressure falls to around 5 psi at idle and 25 psi around 2,000 RPM. Still trying to figure it out.
