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Old 07-18-2008, 02:51 PM
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Oil pressure spikes high

My oil pressure spikes high (45-55) but only briefly when accelerating around the 1250-1750 RPM range, then levels off back to normal (around 30).

I am not running hot or anything, and other than that everything seems fine.
The needles flickers a lot on the way up so I am thinking it is maybe the gauge itself rather than the actual oil pressure....

Any ideas?

(I did search for this but all I found was threads on LOW oil pressure or CONSISTANTLY high pressure)


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Old 07-18-2008, 02:59 PM
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Re: Oil pressure spikes high

most likely a bad sending unit or the gauge itself, for piece of mind you could check it with a mechanical guage.
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