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Can my car be running too cold? Too Little Oil Pressure?

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Old 10-04-05, 11:37 AM
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Can my car be running too cold? Too Little Oil Pressure?

When my car is at operating temperature it looks pretty low, i was just wondering

Also my oil pressure is a tad below where it is in this picture when I'm idling.

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Also, my oil pressure is a little less than that when I'm idling.
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Looks a little funny, but with factory gauges its hard to tell sometimes. The readings could be true, or you could have bad grounding, or bad sending units, poor connections, oil on the wiring, or God only knows what else....

Take a decent thermometer (like a small kitchen therm.) and stick it between the fins on the radiator (carefully, of course) and get an idea what temp you are really running at.

As for the oil pressure, how is the level?
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Its good, but has a leak so I always have to replace it oil. My oil pressure is low at idle, and 30-60 when driving
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