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 Tundra folks: What's your oil pressure reading?
#786982
02/06/07 05:20 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 12
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Need a Spot
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I have a new-to-me '05 Tundra with the V8. ~22K miles and an apparently-fresh oil change. My oil pressure gauge never gets above the half-way point (needle flat horizontal), even doing 70 mph up a mountain or 90 on the interstate. It is often down around the 1/4 mark if idling or easy driving.
The manual seems to say this is within the operating range, but it seems like it is down at the lower end of the OK range. It never gets above the half-way mark.
Is this what other folks are seeing?
TIA
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Re: Tundra folks: What's your oil pressure reading?
[Re: Rockfish]
#786983
02/06/07 05:42 PM
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Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 1,489
Body Damage is Cool
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The 3.4L seems to operate under the same conditions as well, during idle it shows hardly any pressure at all, anything above that its never higher than half way...
97 FZJ80, Stock, Factory Lockers.
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Re: Tundra folks: What's your oil pressure reading?
[Re: Jake97T]
#786984
02/06/07 10:33 PM
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Joined: Feb 2000
Posts: 4,160
Toyota Moderator
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Its just a Toyota thing. You'd think they'd set up the guage so that that the normal readings were a little more confidence-inspiring...
Anyone I've ever heard of who actually measured the oil pressure found that it was in spec when the Toy guage read that way.
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Re: Tundra folks: What's your oil pressure reading?
[Re: ErikB]
#786985
02/06/07 10:39 PM
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Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,466
Roll Me Over
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i have a real gauge on my dash for the 4runner. i can translate 22RE to real psi, but not for a 5VZ.
Scott Landon
1995 T100 - total buildup underway
1988 4Runner (22RE, W56) - new DD
2005 Dodge CTD 4x4 - Tow Beast
1990 Spec Miata
2010 GT3
2013 E92 M3
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Re: Tundra folks: What's your oil pressure reading?
[Re: surlynkid]
#786986
02/07/07 12:49 AM
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Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 981
Rock Warrior
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Mine is the same, at first whenits cold its really high on the T, whenit warms up it drops a bit.
1996 T100, Mickey Thomson Classics, Bridgestone Dueler AT 265/75/16, custom offroad KC's.
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