[V8] Oil pressure

[Jason Wilkerson]

 Ed,  I don't have a v8 anymore but I will say I had some of the same issues when I had both of mine.  Yes the solder joints on the IC can be the problem but I also had issues with the sender.  You can take it apart and inspect/clean it - this fixed my problem in one case.  Basically the outer shell is crimped onto the base - remove the two nuts and pry the lip up from around the base - there is an arm and a coil that the arm moves back and forth on - much like a fuel level sensor in a fuel tank.  Like I said it may need cleaned, resoldered or maybe even bend the sweep arm to apply more pressure?  Hope this helps.
    On Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 11:01:46 PM EDT, toml99 at todomundo.com <toml99 at todomundo.com> wrote:  
 
 Hey Ed, for what it’s worth after swapping in the resoldered IC in the 5-speed I still have an intermittent issue with my pressure gauge.  About 60% of the time it reads high(5) whether idle or foot on pedal.  Then it will go to normal at idle(straight up) and go up to 5 with a tap on pedal like it’s supposed to(or like Lago’s done the entire time I’ve owned it).  Guessing it’s the sender, and since they’re NLA, I just don’t pay attention to it.  I do however feel better when it’s reading right.  If you verify that you actually have low pressure, then what?  I know you’re in for the long haul like me, but first thought would be oil pump….doesn’t sound fun.  Worn main bearings/screwed.  If you didn’t clean/resolder all the connectors on that IC, then I’d do that before anything else, as doing that made everything else work the way it’s supposed to and am confident my gauge issue isn’t in the cluster(soooo many of those solder joints were loose).  Do you have a spare oil sender?  Both my spare motors are sitting on very squished out tires and pretty sure I removed one of the senders to put on one of the cars, but might have a spare if you don’t for testing…..Tom
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