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    High oil pressure reading

    Hey guys-

    So just this last summer I had changed the oil, oil filter, and oil pressure sender on my car. All through the driving season everything seemed to be operating as it should with idle pressure around 60 and up to just shy of 80 driving under a load. Since then my car has been parked in the garage. I needed to move the car the other day to use the space to work on my daily driver and upon startup noticed that the oil pressure gauge bounced immediately over the 80 psi mark when idling acting like its having a seizure jumping around and pegs maxed out when given throttle. If I shut the car off the gauge rests around 20 psi like normal. What gives? Cold oil? Clogged oil filter? Clogged sender?


    In order to troubleshoot I unplugged the sender and witnessed the gauge immediately peg and not move with ignition and start. I then grounded sender wire and witnessed the gauge go to 0 psi. This would lead me to believe the gauge in the dash is good. I checked the oil level which looked good with a level between the notches like normal. Am I missing a step in the trouble shooting process? Could I already have a bad sender? Or would leaving a car sit in a 55 degree garage thicken the oil to the point of throwing a high pressure warning? I sort of want to let the car idle for awhile to let the oil warm up thus maybe unsticking something that may be gunked up but definitely don't want to hurt the engine. Thoughts?
    Last edited by Trstno1; 01-19-2016 at 02:22 PM.
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    Get an external oil pressure gauge. I think I paid like $20 for mine. Hook that up and see what it says. That'll tell you right away where your issue is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DMCMW Dave View Post
    Gauge is good, sender is bad.
    Thanks for the quick response. Any reason for a sender to go bad that's only 6 months old?
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    oil press high

    Had same problem, had same question, DMCMW said bad sender
    replaced .....all ok

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    Mines always done this, Starts at 80psi, jumping around, on a long hot run it may drop down to 60psi.
    I just thought it was another Delorean quirk.
    What ideally should it do?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SS Spoiler View Post
    Had same problem, had same question, DMCMW said bad sender
    replaced .....all ok
    ok, guess I'll get a new sender and see what happens. Thanks!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trstno1 View Post
    Thanks for the quick response. Any reason for a sender to go bad that's only 6 months old?
    No, but it happens. Some seem to last forever, some don't.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trstno1 View Post
    Thanks for the quick response. Any reason for a sender to go bad that's only 6 months old?
    Short answer....Chinese part! They're out there. Buy from trusted source.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PJ Grady Inc. View Post
    Short answer....Chinese part! They're out there. Buy from trusted source.
    Rob
    Is there any vender selling a sender that's not made in China? If so, how much $?
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