Check it out.
any comments would be fantastic

thanks

 

What do you mean whats wrong with it? It actually looks like you have a oil pressure gauge from mazda that works....

I take it when you first turned the car on it was already warm????

 

Do some searching. You'll see thats pretty much normal.

 

yeah it was already warm. i had heard that if it bounces like that then it's got issues. maybe im insane.

also when i am driving and i throw it into neutral the revs climb to about 2100-2200 and hold there for a minute or two. is this common as well?

thanks again

 

no thats not common. could be the dash pot needs adjusted or maybe the butterflies are a little gummed up.

 

sorry i didnt understand that at all. what does all that mean?

 

No it looks fine, as long as your oil pressure goes up with the RPMS thats good!

My oil pressure gauge sits at almost zero at idle, and just twiches, haha. Yours looks normal.

 

Enjoy your oil psi sender now while it's working.


Later

 

If you want to use an oil pressure gauge you have to get an aftermarket gauge. The stock gauge and sender are worthless.

 

I wouldn't say worthless......from a 15 year old car.
Just not the best design....
My Rx had similar issues with the pressure and I took some triple zero steel wool, and cleaned male contact and crimped the female contact, and that cleared it up.

If that doesn't take care of it a oil pressure sender is about $85 from Malloy Mazda.

If you are on a budget, you can take the unit off and clean the passages with paint thinner (just passages) , clean and crimp the contacts too.

Mazda took out the oil pressure guage for the 1999-2002 models and replaced it with an idiot light.

 

The pressure gauge doesn't say anything meaningful. It basically tells you that you have pressure or you dont. That is exactly why they replaced it with the idiot light. If you want a true reading of oil pressure you have to go to an aftermarket gauge.

I really would just take the stock gauge's reading with a grain of salt. It doesn't show anything meaningful, especially if you are tracking the car.

I have a defi gauge so that I can set a warning...and see actual pressure. It reads very contrary to the stock gauge... you can guess which one I trust. Of course it does read similar to the accurate gauge occationally, but hey, even a broke clock is right twice a day.