Oil Pressure

[black sky]

Hi peoples

I've got an auto gauge oil presure gauge and it doesn't seem to be reading properly or maby my oil pump is f**ked it doesn't really go past 25psi when warm even when thrashing.

Can anyone tell me there experiences with the gauges and where do i put the sender unit incase i've done it wrong. and also how do i wire it up (incase i've done it wrong).

By the way it's on an rb20det in an s13.

Cheers

anthony

[gawdzilla]

does the gauge move around at all when you rev in neutral? it should...

is your gauge mechanical or electrical? maybe you've placed the sender in the wrong place. There should be a small piece of alumnium that holds the stock sender, where you can T into. Remove the stock sender and that little alumnium piece. Drill through the alumnium piece and tap it for your new sender. I did this and it worked fine for a mechanical sender.

I have gone electrical since then, and replaced mine directly in place of the stock oil pressure sender, because i am not using a skyline gauge cluster. the stock oil press sender was useless to me.

Edited November 23, 2005 by gawdzilla

[GKTECH]

The autogauge seres are very cheap and nasty. I'm suprised that you get a reading at all.

Autogauge is a cheap knockoff of Autometer and Autogage.

Greg

[black sky]

does the gauge move around at all when you rev in neutral?  it should...

is your gauge mechanical or electrical?  maybe you've placed the sender in the wrong place.  There should be a small piece of alumnium that holds the stock sender, where you can T into.  Remove the stock sender and that little alumnium piece.  Drill through the alumnium piece and tap it for your new sender.  I did this and it worked fine for a mechanical sender.

I have gone electrical since then, and replaced mine directly in place of the stock oil pressure sender, because i am not using a skyline gauge cluster.  the stock oil press sender was useless to me.

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We'll i'm not to sure where the sender is placed but i'm pretty sure thats it's an electrical sender and does it just go straight in to the engine block??

Yea it moves around when i rev the car on nutral when it's on start up it goes to 50psi and then when it's warm and just idling it sits on 0psi, now that can't be right and the highest i've seen it go is 25 psi at about 5000 rpm so i dunno if it's the gauge or if it's my oil pump. maby it's not connected properly cause my water temp doesn't really go above 60c and i knowit's really on about 83-90c. farkin autogauge