my oil pressure sits at 30 during normal driving but when i step on it it jumps ut to 60 and my cars getting a little hot

 

do you have an oil leak anywhere?

My oil pressure drops down to the very bottom when ideling. When I press the throttle it stars to hover in the middle. But I have an oil leak in the top left side of the engine.

Peter

 

no i have no oil leaks

 

normal, except for the hot part

 

but sometimes it reads no oil pressure

 

I have the same issue.

I have no leaks and I swapped oil pumps and the fron cover with te pressure control valve and I still have the same problem. I will be swapping out the Oil Pressure regulator in the oil pan at the rear of the motor soon I hope. When idling I get 0-18 psi. During driving it will hit 60 and slowly drop to between 30-60. I used a machanical oi lpressure gauge so I know its really that low.

Its supposed to be around 30 when idling and around 70 at 3000 rpm.

Go get a Mechanical oil pressure gauge first. Don't believe that stock gauge as the oil pressure sender is a lot of times, very inaccurate.

 

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Sounds like this MIGHT be your trouble. Read up on the thermal pellet in the FSM.

 

i was looking at the fsm how would i get to the thermal pellet

 

you just described normal oil pressures.


sounds like a front cover o-ring issue, did you pay close attention to that o-ring when you disassembled/reassembled everything?

 

alright i fucked up my other post it sits a 30 when idle ok thats normal but when im driveing it drops down to 0 if i step on it drive it hard it will go up to 60ish but it goes back down to 0 sorry bout my other post

 

so it will idle near 0 when warmed up is what your saying? what about just cruising at about 3k RPMs?

 

My oil pressure sits at 30 when in idle...but when I drive it likes to stay at 110 for I think might be too long

 

yea thats what im saying

 

I need to check my oil but what is going on with the 110? I mean, is that normal?

 

did you verify it with a mechanical gauge? if yes then i would bet the front cover o-ring has gone MIA, there should be a fair amount of info around if you search for it. it requires resealing the front cover.





S K, try making your own threads rather than pirating other people's...

 

I think half of you people have bad gauges. The stock gauges are inaccurate. Aftermarket electrical gauges can be inaccurate too--my sender **** on my autometer gauge, and my friend's autometer electric sender went bad and told him he was getting 7psi at idle in his T2 when he was really getting 15 according to a different mechanical gauge.