[V8] Oil pressure

Ingo Rautenberg ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 11:53:21 PDT 2019


Ed,

I would remove the oil pressure sender (I don’t recall the location
exactly) and thread in a manual fitting and mechanical gauge to test. I
seem to recall having done that on one of my V8’s many years ago.

Ingo

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 1:47 PM Ed Kellock <ekellock at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to check oil pressure other than the gauge?
>
> On my 94, the gauge is reading low, across the range from cold start to
> fully warmed up.
>
> It used to read in the "normal" range, but the IC in there right now is
> from a car that did 211k before it died. I've put another 8-9k on the
> cluster with very little issue.
>
> The oil temp seems to be reading a nut higher as well, which kind of goes
> along with the pressure gauge I suppose.
>
> Ed
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