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Oil Pressure Question
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Oil Pressure Question
Hey all, I hate to start a thread with less than 5 posts, but did a search and didnt find anything on my issue.
I have had my 2000 6spd 'vert about 10 days. Still on cloud nine but tonight I nothiced my oil pressure gauge was pegged on the high side and digital readout said somewhere like 130 psi.
I am an old Chevy guy and never had such an issue.
What gives????
I have had my 2000 6spd 'vert about 10 days. Still on cloud nine but tonight I nothiced my oil pressure gauge was pegged on the high side and digital readout said somewhere like 130 psi.
I am an old Chevy guy and never had such an issue.
What gives????
Last edited by TC_1961; Feb 7, 2012 at 10:44 PM. Reason: typo
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If oil pressure reading 130 doesn't show up in a search, you might as well cancel the search portion of the forum. There must be thousands of posts about it, so all these recent complaints about search being useless must be true.
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I searched for "high oil pressure"
Thanks Jistari, thats exactly what I was looking for.
Ive always felt that manufacturers held up a heater core on the assembly line and said "GO", and built a car around a heater core. So its the oil pressure switch on a C5 that starts the process. Great.
Thanks Jistari, thats exactly what I was looking for.
Ive always felt that manufacturers held up a heater core on the assembly line and said "GO", and built a car around a heater core. So its the oil pressure switch on a C5 that starts the process. Great.
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Yep, bad oil pressure sensor - seems like a common problem with the C5. Good luck with the repair.
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I searched for "high oil pressure"
Thanks Jistari, thats exactly what I was looking for.
Ive always felt that manufacturers held up a heater core on the assembly line and said "GO", and built a car around a heater core. So its the oil pressure switch on a C5 that starts the process. Great.
Thanks Jistari, thats exactly what I was looking for.
Ive always felt that manufacturers held up a heater core on the assembly line and said "GO", and built a car around a heater core. So its the oil pressure switch on a C5 that starts the process. Great.
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Oilpressure sending unit local ?
It's way down in back of the intake manifold in the engine block. Now most often a shop will want to pull the intake manifold to replace it, but I have recently seen a video of a guy and you can most likely find it on 'youtube' a guy shows exactly how to do it with a old coat hanger and the 1.25 oil pressure socket and doesn't pull any thing off the engine saving you a bundle. It takes him in the video about twenty minutes start to finish on a cooled down motor for the whole job. might want to keep this in mind if your asking around shop what they want to put a new sender in for you.
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One way to diagnose this is to just turn on the ignition, with the engine off, if ANY oil pressure shows your sensor is probably bad (I say probably, because some wiring problems (not common) can also show this problem).
Hope the posts show the options: 1) small hands, change without removing intake, 2) cut hole in wiper panel above sensor, 3) change by removing intake manifold (factory method), and 4) option of adding a remote kit to make next change easy.
Also be sure to clean any oil off of connector AND use proper torque on new sensor.
Good luck !
Hope the posts show the options: 1) small hands, change without removing intake, 2) cut hole in wiper panel above sensor, 3) change by removing intake manifold (factory method), and 4) option of adding a remote kit to make next change easy.
Also be sure to clean any oil off of connector AND use proper torque on new sensor.
Good luck !
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Ouch....sorry to hear thatWould have been just as easy to title the first one "Dash light blinking on/off" and the second one "Water in passenger footwell" and both could have used the title they chose as the first sentence.
You'll get the answer either way, but if we take a second and just put the problem or symptoms in the title everyone who looks later will also benefit from that help
Don't get me started on the "HELP !!! PLEASE" titled threads.......jeeze.....ya would think they are hanging off a cliff
only to open them to find "so I spilled some coffee, what is the best way . . ." 