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Old 09-12-04, 09:39 AM
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Help Please: Oil Pressure Gauge Not Working

I installed my motor and the oil pressure gauge is not working. Its b/c i dont have one of the two wires hooked up. I have the wire that goes to the unit hooked up, can anyone tell me where the other one goes???
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I believe it is a ground if i'm not mistaken but if I'm wrong i'm sure someone will tell me
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So could i just ground it somewhere?? B/c there is no place for it on the transmission
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a ground is a ground brotha, either way its negative

ground that ho!
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i grounded it and still there is no oil pressure??? i am really confused.
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maybe a bad sending unit. Do you have a manuel pressure gauge???
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I think its electric b/c there is the two wires
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no I mean do you have manual pressure gauge so you can test your oil pressure to make sure that it really doesn't have 0 psi of oil. Also was this gauge working before???
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The OEM oil pressure sender only has one wire going to it- it grounds through its threads on the side housing.

So, make sure your engine grounds (bonding jumper at the tranny-firewall) are good, and make sure your sender threads are nice & clean (no teflon tape wrapped around them)...

On S4 cars, the sender wire is yellow/red...

Also make sure the capacitor (bolts to the clutch slave cylinder for its ground) wiring is not shorting to ground...
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i dont have a capacitor, i had everything rebuilt and they forgot to put it back on the transmission. My oil gauge worked before so i dont think it is bad.
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