Heads are on but oil pressure gauge isn't working
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Well, I got the heads on and fired it up. It sounds great but the oil pressure gauge is at zero. When we shut the car off the gauge jumps to around 20 PSI with the car off. When I put autotap on it the gauge tells autotap it's at -14PSI with the car off and on. It sounds great though and we have fired it up about 10 times for about 20 seconds but we're too afraid of the oil pressure gauge.
We plugged the oil sending unit back in also. Thanks.
We plugged the oil sending unit back in also. Thanks.
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Time to take off the intake and replace the oil pressure sending unit. It is very common to brake it, even being careful.
<small>[ May 25, 2002, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: Toxic Texan ]</small>
<small>[ May 25, 2002, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: Toxic Texan ]</small>
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Toxic Texan:
<strong>Time to take off the intake and replace the oil pressure sending unit. It is very common to brake it, even being careful.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I agree with the others....It happens alot during head/intake swaps. (Luckily never to me <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> )
<strong>Time to take off the intake and replace the oil pressure sending unit. It is very common to brake it, even being careful.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I agree with the others....It happens alot during head/intake swaps. (Luckily never to me <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> )
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Autotap won't read the oil pressure, at least the DOS version doesn't. Mine always reads out at -14.