oil pressure...

[Foxfan88]

Ok tonight i was draggin main for like an hour and my car is driving fine.

So i will start with some questions. Is it normal for the cars temp to flucuate a bit with alot of stop go driving?? Like normally my temp guage sits about 1/4th up the guage every once in a while it would go up to the 1/2 mark ( sorry but thats the best way i can explain the guages)

But when i was on the highway it was fine, back to 1/4
I assume this is normal.....


NOW my oil pressure, usually it sits on the 3/4 mark, tonight it would flucuate b/w 1/2 and 3/4, would stay b/w the 2 but would flucuate a bit.

At idle my oil pressure would be at the 1/2 make then move up a bit when i started driving. But it never really would get back to the 3/4 mark like it usually is.

Its hard to read the stock guages and tell anything from them but i tried my best to explain it. I noticed if the temp was higher, the oil pressure was lower....

my question is...is any of this out of the ordinary, i know it may sound stupid but i just got my stock guages fixed like a week ago so i had no idea what was going on, now i am freaking out since stuff moves now.... maybe its just from driving non stop for like over an hour in stop/go traffic???

 

[HISSIN50]

As temps go up, the oil pressure diminishes as the oil thins. Normal.

As for the actual gauge readings, as you know, it is different with each car. LOL.

Real gauges at some point would be nice, but your readings on stockers sound alright to me.

good luck.

 

[Foxfan88]

GOO LORD! you have a ****load of posts man!

But anyway, have any of you guys ever felt heat on you legs( more towards your feet), like if the motor gets hotter??

 

[sgarlic]

Not on my foxbody yet.. but I've driven plenty of other vehicles where I had this mysterious phenomenon.

 

[HISSIN50]

The original 427 A/C Cobras were said to be capable of melting one's shoe sole to the gas pedal.

I have not noticed heat on the feet, but it is so hot here anyhow, I am not sure I would notice. IIRC, the lowest HVAC fan setting is low (not off), so one can get some heat via the HVAC vents (though that may not be the case at all here).

 

[1EVIL88VERT]

my feet get hot in mine and also my right leg....but their is no longer any insulation on mine just a 1/4 in. of carpet

 

[sgarlic]

Oh, and my oil pressure gauge does the same thing.. like Hissin said, until you get a real gauge you'll proably never know whether or not your oil is actually doing what the gauge "claims" it is.

 

[Euphoric306]

i wouldnt worry about that oil pressure thing... until it drops to about 1/4 lol.

these guys r right about pretty much everything

the heat thing i couldnt tell u, cuz thats ur car and how foxes were designed alike in the 1980's and how different they all are now is very evident, to me anyway

 

[Boss 351]

GOO LORD! you have a ****load of posts man!

But anyway, have any of you guys ever felt heat on you legs( more towards your feet), like if the motor gets hotter??

Those cats will warm up your feet if they are starting to get old. I got no carpet or insulation on my car and my feet will get warm in stop and go traffic lol

 

[Foxfan88]

i have no cats ;O