oil gauge sucks =(

[brink]

My oil gauge has done this forever but i figured that i would finally ask.. lol

When it moves, its like sketchy kinda.. The pressure when it wasnt broken was around 40 at idle i believe and 60 @ WOT. Now it just kinda stays at 60, goes a little below at idle and a little above @ WOT. And when it changes it like sketchy movements.. now smooth.

Car runs fine, SES light is on due to the fact that i dont have a o2 sim and i have no cat. I change my oil every 2,000 mi.

What could cause the gauge the stick like this? Is there anyway to fix this because i definitly dont want an ugly aftermarket gauge in my car. I figured it might be a sensor.. help anyone? I've never had any problems, car fires right up the first time, and ran a 15.7 with my stock 3.08 gear.

[Fredless]

Mine stays around 60psi at idle, and goes a little above when its at WOT or I rev the motor.

You change your oil every 2k? Thats overkill...but whatever floats your boat. I change mine every 4-4500 miles.

['94firebirdv6]

probably a bad oil pressure sending unit

[V8 Killer]

Just add a single gauge pod with a 2 5/6 much more accurate oil press gauge with the wiring/sensors..

[bigCountry]

hey brink i have a question i took my cat off and my car doesnt pill out anymore from take off and when i burn out it takes longer is this normal and will it help my 0-60 time or hert it

[Silverbird2002]

how had is it to wire in a oil pressure pod on your a piller?

[jessica2112]

Not hard at all. I put a three gauge pillar pod in mine. Vac-f/p a/f
Check this out it will help.
http://home.comcast.net/~grayman99/GaugeInstalls.html

Instead of the vac line you would have the oil pressure line, unless you buy an electric gauge. Then it would just be a sender wire

[brink]

Originally posted by bigCountry:
hey brink i have a question i took my cat off and my car doesnt pill out anymore from take off and when i burn out it takes longer is this normal and will it help my 0-60 time or hert it

i have that same problem, well not really a problem.. It's good that your getting traction, my 60' times suffered from it a believe, but once it gets moving not having a cat helps.

are you a m5 or a4? I hold the brake down in 1st gear with my A4 and it wont pull out it stalls @ 2000 rpms. does yours do this? and when you had a cat, could you burnout?

[bigCountry]

my car is a 95 when i had a preformance muffler and my cat on my car would pill out a good 25 feet it wont pill out now unless the road is wet but when i power stall it the whell will start off slow for about 5-10 sec then both whells lock up and it will spin em really good

[bigCountry]

A4 is an automatic right? i hav an A4 then

['94firebirdv6]

^^^^^^
this is quite possibly the least technical topic discussed in the history of this forum
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