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 Low oil pressure
#800591
03/27/07 12:25 AM
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Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 25
OP
Getting the Wheeling Fever
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I noticed today while sitting at a light that my oil pressure guage was bottoming out and fluttering and the light was coming on. I checked the oil and it was fine. At cruising speed it seems fine at about 29 psi but at idle it drops all the way. Can I use a higher viscosity oil to help this or do I have big problems. It is a 93 rodeo 3.2. Any help would be much apreciated.
93 Rodeo 3.2L, 3" body lift, 3" Indy4x lift on 33's, flowmaster50, stainless brakes and clutch lines,
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Re: Low oil pressure
[Re: throwin_roost]
#800592
03/27/07 11:59 PM
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Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 899
Rock Warrior
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I noticed today while sitting at a light that my oil pressure guage was bottoming out and fluttering and the light was coming on. I checked the oil and it was fine. At cruising speed it seems fine at about 29 psi but at idle it drops all the way. Can I use a higher viscosity oil to help this or do I have big problems. It is a 93 rodeo 3.2. Any help would be much apreciated. I'd get a second opinion, from a mechanical gauge.
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Re: Low oil pressure
[Re: Fujisawa_Rob]
#800593
03/28/07 01:20 AM
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Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 2,529
Roll Me Over
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Yeah you only need about 10 pounds of oil pressure per 1000 RPMs.
x2 on the mechanical gauge.
Joe
A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
98 Passport 33's, Supercharged, Calmini Bumper, rockbars, diff drops, Teralows, 4.77's, Aussie and ARB lockers, Safari snorkel, Optima red top.
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 Re: Low oil pressure
[Re: throwin_roost]
#800594
03/28/07 02:05 AM
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Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 310
Mudrunner
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it could be the gauge or sender, but the fact that the idiot light is coming on is trouble; it's a different sender (switch) and it seems to be confirming your gauge.
stop driving it until you can check it out with the recommended proverbial gauge. such low oil pressure, whether from a failing oil pump or from some other problem, can cause all sorts of damage even sitting there at idle. that idiot light comes on at some rediculously low psi.
//bc
1992 sohc trooper 3.2l v6 automatic . . . as is
i love a good intermittent electrical challenge. . .especially when it's someone else's.
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