I never had my oil pressure guage working. I was wiring it up I have the backlight working and all the wires ran an hooked up. When I turn the ignition on the gauge sets to 0 and when the motor is running the needle jacks up all the way on the gauge. My idiot light is working. Its a VDO gauge with VDO sending unit with a ground and a signal post. Any Ideas? Surely I don't have 80+ psi

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A broken clock is right two times a day.

Check pressure with a mechanical gauge to see actual pressure. You probably have a bad sender.

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Turbocharged Ecotec,vanogon midshift,Berrien WoodsBuggy wagon.

or a bad ground. bad ground equals pegged guage

I moved and rewired the ground to make sure.... I have a different sending unit without the ground I'll try...?

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A broken clock is right two times a day.

is this the new motor? My buggy starts and idles with 85-90 psi till it warms up. When its cold it sits at 100 psi till it warms up witch takes a while at idle.

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Maybe you should chug on over to mamby pamby land....

I had a similar problem with summit gauges. They said to try n get your ground as close to the sending unit as possible. worked for me.

Yes, I never had the gauge hooked up on my old motor to know the difference. Maybe I need to get it out of the garage and let it warm up! I can't let it run to long in the garage, the exhaust is to die for

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A broken clock is right two times a day.

If you dont check your oil pressure with a mechanical gauge at the port to know what you actual pres is your still just guessing. you dont know if there is a problem yet.

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Turbocharged Ecotec,vanogon midshift,Berrien WoodsBuggy wagon.

Hyde's motors are good for oil pressure! On ef 'em blew my oil cooler apart and broke my autometer mechanical guage in the first 30 seconds of idling I had to take a shim out of the relief after that. I'd rather have too much oil pressure than too little! He builds one hell of a motor

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Maybe you should chug on over to mamby pamby land....

Yeah the gauge reads about 65-70. I'm going to get a mechanical gauge to double check. It will have to wait, I pick up some new rockers and need to make new pushrods. 1 step forward 2 steps back.

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A broken clock is right two times a day.

just had same prob on my bug and there was a iffy to no connection at the sending unit. my plug wires were sharing a ziptie with the wire goin to my gauge and i had partially broke the connection when i pulled to get access to the ziptie... scared the pi$$ out me... til i looked a little harder... just checked all connections as tight and clean...

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