[DML] Re: oil pressure [was: Speaking of Oil..]

["bitsyncmater" <david.mckeen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My car holds at the line below the 80 psi mark.  Don't know what this 
line represents, I guess it to be 70 or 60 psi.  At idle (750-800 
RPM) it runs around mid scale (40 psi).  If I bump the idle to 900 it 
shoots back up to the line before 80.

So mine is very sensitive to the low RPMs.

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Farrar <fhudkins@...> wrote:
>
> Sorry to veer off track here, but how should I read the oil 
pressure gauge?
> 
> According to the repair receipts, my car's oil pressure sender was 
> replaced, but it's difficult to know what I should glean from it.
> 
> My oil pressure gauge seems linked to the RPMs. (e.g. it reads 
almost 
> zero at a stoplight, and jumps up when I hit the gas) Is that 
correct?
> 
> (BTW, the Yahoo Groups search function is currently not 
functioning.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Farrar Hudkins
> #2613 (auto)
> 
> Dave Swingle wrote:
> > I don't think 5W30 is a particularly good idea in this engine and 
can
> > usually tell when a car comes in with that in it - the oil 
pressure
> > reads way too low when hot.
>



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