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Dbeck002

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the past month this has been happening.

My car has a characteristic oil pressure to it that i always could tell. At idle the needle would sit dead on the halfway line and at cruise it would jump to the O on Normal.

Now it kinda goes up and down and flips out, i dont understand. am i loosing oil pressure? even when i cruise it bounces to half and then back to O, while the RPMs are kept constant. Whats going on?
 

HISSIN50

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You know the first thing any of us will say - it sounds like you are using the stock gauge. Toss a real guage on and see what is going on.

Good luck.
 

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I know the stock gauges are idiot. But I just hope its not oil pressure.
 

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It's probably the sending unit going bad -- but rather than invest good money after bad (replacing the stock sender) go ahead and put a real oil pressure gauge in the car so you KNOW what the oil pressure is.
 
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