Oil pressure gauge

[24carrot]

Hi can any one help my oil pressure gauge has stop working oil pressure good but gauge not working any ideas thanks

 

[Chris]

Tricky, this one. Sometimes it's the sender on the side of the engine, sometimes it's the loom and sometimes is the instrument cluster. You just have to go section by section. I had an 80 that I never got fixed. I just learned to accept that when the engine wasn't running, the gauge was correct!

 

[24carrot]

Tricky, this one. Sometimes it's the sender on the side of the engine, sometimes it's the loom and sometimes is the instrument cluster. You just have to go section by section. I had an 80 that I never got fixed. I just learned to accept that when the engine wasn't running, the gauge was correct!

 

[clivehorridge]

Me too, just disconnected it from the sender, binned the sender and installed a real oil pressure gauge, well one that has a finger that moves instead.

It came with its own sender, so now I can drive relaxed knowing I’ve got all of 30lb pressure at cruising speed.

I’m joking, but its alarmingly low at idle, but the book says that’s OK.

I ain’t arguing.

 

[frank rabbets]

Could well be loose/ corroded terminals on the sender. Mechanical gauges give a more accurate picture but if the pipe to the gauge breaks that's a nasty problem.

 

[clivehorridge]

Could well be loose/ corroded terminals on the sender. Mechanical gauges give a more accurate picture but if the pipe to the gauge breaks that's a nasty problem.

Agree Frank, ask me how I know

 

[Towpack]

When I bought the 80 in ‘05 it had the low OP “problem” which turned out to be the sender. I installed a (temporary) mechanical capillary gauge, which is still connected, to check the pressure, then bought a new sender. If you take the lid off the sender unit you’ll find it can be adjusted to make the OEM gauge read higher/lower.

 

[24carrot]

Thanks for the replys