Re: Oil pressure gauge wonderings

[Ron Hamilton <ej99176@goodnet.com>]

Nothing more than idiot guages with a needle and notoriously innacurate at
idle speeds. Early ones are better.

Ron

Daniel George Neuman 2 wrote:

> Hello All,
> I have some questions about the oil pressure gauge in my car (69 2000).
> First do they work well??  What should the gauge be saying at idle with
> a warmed up car??  What about at higher rpm's??
> When my car is warmed up and I am idling ~800rpm my gauge reads really
> low on the scale?  Is this normal??
>
>                 thanks,
>                         Daniel