04-07-2017, 12:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Powell,
OH
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance, 351w
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Oil pressure question
I just bought my car right before winter so I don't have many miles on it yet. Not new, it is about 15yrs old and about 15k miles on it. I am still working my way through the car checking everything out.
One thing that irks me is the oil pressure gauge always reads around 52-55psi since I got it (At cold startup, warmed up, idle, driving around, etc....it doesn't seem to move much more than 5psi any time I look at it) When you shut the car off, it sinks to zero again so its not stuck.
Its a mechanical gauge and this is the first car I have had with a mechanical gauge so I am trying to understand whats going on. If the sender was bad, don't they usually read zero, act erratic or peg the gauge? Seems weird that it always reads about the same value. Doesn't seem to me like it would be a gauge issue. I don't see any damage in the line from sender to gauge...No oil pump noise, etc. Its a 1969 351w...Thoughts?
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