Oil pressure and oil weight?
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Oil pressure and oil weight?
Alright a leading up story. I swapped my ls1 intake to a ls6 about 3 months ago. While in the process I broke the oil pressure sending unit so I replaced it with one from Oriellys. Put everything together all is well. Now the past few days I notice my gauge was going crazy. With cruise set it was bouncing back and forth from about 40-80. At start up it goes to about 48 and isle is around 45 but wiggles a bit. I have noticed also that sometime when I give it has while cruising, just slight throttle not wot, it actually drops. Is this all normal? Bad sending unit?
The car is my 99 TA a4. It's only really driven on the weekend to go out street racing.
Also I live in Hawaii where the temp is usually a constant 77-82 ish. I mainly only drive at night where it drops to around 70. The past week I have been driving it everyday as I sold my other car and this is really when I have noticed it. I am running 5w30 Mobil 1 synthetic with a wix filter. Should I be running higher viscosity? I am moving to Texas next week. What should I run for oil weight there?
Main concerns are is the sending unit bad and what oil weight should I be using?
The car is my 99 TA a4. It's only really driven on the weekend to go out street racing.
Also I live in Hawaii where the temp is usually a constant 77-82 ish. I mainly only drive at night where it drops to around 70. The past week I have been driving it everyday as I sold my other car and this is really when I have noticed it. I am running 5w30 Mobil 1 synthetic with a wix filter. Should I be running higher viscosity? I am moving to Texas next week. What should I run for oil weight there?
Main concerns are is the sending unit bad and what oil weight should I be using?