Oil Pressure Sender is !@!#@#
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 4:00 pm
Last night I jumped in the car to drive it after it sat in the garage for 3 days, a block or so away from home, I realized the oil pressure was zero!!! I drove it back home while swearing/panicking at the same time, started checking everything, the motor didn't sound like it was running dry or anything.. looked underneath at the wire on the sender, fine, pulled it out, was oily cleaned it, nothing, measured the resistance from sender to ground, it was high (~50K), not knowing what a good reading was, I measured the volts on the wire from the gauge, around 12 volts, fine.. I started undoing the sender not succeeding, then out of the blue I just banged the sender with the spanner, a click was heard from inside the canister, measured the resistance again this time ~50 ohms, plugged the wire in again, started the engine and presto, oil pressure was up again.........
SORRy about the length, I had to get it off my chest, just in case it happens to somebody else,,, they'll know how to fix it.. :D
SORRy about the length, I had to get it off my chest, just in case it happens to somebody else,,, they'll know how to fix it.. :D