oil pressure issues

NinjaMax

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I was having very low oil pressure (0-1psi idling, 12 cruising, and 17 max accelerating) last night I bought a guage to plug into the turbo supply line and everything for an oil change just cause it was due..

I got the wrong fitting for the guage but did change the oil/filter...just out of curiosity, I fired it up. Now, cold on ignition it'll hit 45 psi, idle down after about 10 min to 7 psi. Once it gets hot, itll idle at 4 psi, under light acceleration it'll go up to 36psi-38psi...normal cruising it average 34psi...when I stop at a light it'll read anywhere from 3psi-6psi setting off the alarm.

No dripping or any leakage from what I can tell, hoping to get a guage reading tonight and rule out a sensor. Anybody know what these symptoms are leaning towards?
 
Lparrill

Lparrill

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Looks like you're going to join the built motor club :spit:

But on a serious note I hope its a bad sensor. If you need a hand you know how to get ahold of me. My schedule is pretty open
 
NinjaMax

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Lparrill said:
Looks like you're going to join the built motor club :spit:

But on a serious note I hope its a bad sensor. If you need a hand you know how to get ahold of me. My schedule is pretty open
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Lol oh man, the wife is gonna kill me:rolleyes: I always knew she'd get built, lol it hurts so good..

Might take you up on that..be my virgin run on a dmax build
 
Bustedknuckles

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NinjaMax said:
I'm really hoping this isn't it, ill at least test the actual pressure tomorrow on the turbo oil supply..besides the pressure, what else can I check externally to see if it is the bearings?
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Nothing, if you have low oil pressure verified with a mechanical gauge and your oil is good i guess it could be a worn oil pump but its probably the bearings.
 
NinjaMax

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And here's this, strained the oil from the last night, feels like real fine grainy material, almost thick. And these two
 

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NinjaMax

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Bustedknuckles said:
Anything decided on this?
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Yes sir, after the oil change I started it up, and the pressure was looking better, not great but better. It set that day while I was at work, , the following morning I started it again and it jumped to 52 psi cold and idled at 11 warm...so finally 3 days ago I took for a spin just to see. Jumped to 63 cold, idled warm at 14 and 1800 rpm it'll hang at the 44/46 psi mark.

I'm guessing the sender had some gunk on it. I went to pull the sender yesterday but didn't have the right socket. Hopefully this weekend I'll get some time to pull and clean it.

Edit: once it gets hot, when you slow down to a stop it will dip down to 5 or 6 psi...any throttle at all and it jumps right back up. Its still a little low but way better then before. I did pull the turbo feed line and it shot oil out, but I do still need to hook a Mech guage up and clean the sender... Soon as I get some time
 
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