HELP! oil pressure low! gauge dropped to nothing!

[lotsofmiles]

Nothing looks out of the ordinary with the bale connectors.



Got efi plugged in ready to go...


In case I get distracted, Just want to say thanks to everyone for the help too!

 

[bullfrogjohnson]

does the banks plug into the bale connectors?

 

[lotsofmiles]

I'm hoping for bad sensor...

Left MI last night, down to NC, everything was perfect...

Gauge is staying at 0, but engine sounds fine

 

[Kat]

does the banks plug into the bale connectors?

That is what I thought

 

[lotsofmiles]

does the banks plug into the bale connectors?

yes

 

[bullfrogjohnson]

I'm hoping for bad sensor...

Left MI last night, down to NC, everything was perfect...

Gauge is staying at 0, but engine sounds fine

Are you in NC now? If the Banks plugs into the bale connectors I would remove it and plug everything back up to stock

 

[cdbright]

i had a oil pressure seding unit that had a slight crack in it, and would send speratic signals when it felt like it, esp rollen down the road, confused the hell outa the computer

 

[lotsofmiles]

Are you in NC now? If the Banks plugs into the bale connectors I would remove it and plug everything back up to stock

yes charlotte off i77 costco pkg lot


putting back to stock now....


the banks has been on for over 110,000 miles...

 

[lotsofmiles]

banks is disconnected... still nothing out of the oil pressure gauge...

 

[bullfrogjohnson]

What exit off I77? You might just be right down the road from me

 

[lotsofmiles]

What exit off I77? You might just be right down the road from me

I'm working it.....north side..... costco, chilis, jap sushi place, music store...

 

[1lowdiesel]

not for nuttin, but don't some of the clusters have issues w/ the oil pressure gauge going dead?

 

[bullfrogjohnson]

You are not but 20 minutes down the road but at 4:30 on a friday it would take and hour and a half. Your off exit 5.

 

[bullfrogjohnson]

not for nuttin, but don't some of the clusters have issues w/ the oil pressure gauge going dead?

The older ones did, thats what I was going to use EFI for to determine if the cluster went bad

 

[lotsofmiles]

any way to test the sensor or gauge?



when the thing dropped to nothing, I pulled off instantly. But I said, I'm going to get run over here, enginge sounds normal, no noises. I drove it a mile or so to get to a safe spot. It sounded fine. But I hate to run another couple hundred miles based on my guess of sounds fine

 

[bullfrogjohnson]

Yes you can check the gauge through the SCAN TOOL part of EFI

 

[lotsofmiles]

You are not but 20 minutes down the road but at 4:30 on a friday it would take and hour and a half. Your off exit 5.

Sounds right

 

[cdbright]

can't the guage be grounded to see it will peg out?

 

[duratothemax]

no, the stepper motors themselves can go bad. The cluster gets the oil pressure reading over the data bus from the ECM. Then it sends the signal to the stepper motor. If the stepper motor goes bad the needle can show zero. BUT this would NOT trigger the "LOW OIL PRESSURE" warning in the DIC and dinging, because the cluster is still getting a "normal" oil pressure data signal.

Make sense?

 

[duratothemax]

can't the guage be grounded to see it will peg out?

no because the cluster gets all its gauge info over the data bus and translates/decodes that into coolant, battery, trans temp, oil press gauge/needle readings. Its not like the olden days when each gauge was wired to a sensor.