Perfect36

Hi Rx-7ner's This is me, and just when I thought my problems were over a new one starts. Just after my coolant experience, My pilot bearing crumbles into pieces, now that I seem to have a handle on both of those, I was driving to my mom's and I check my guages and It's reading I have 30 lbs. oil pressure. I stop and check the oil I'm a little low I go straight to the gas station and get some oil. It still says 30lbs. and zero at idle, but it's not running any different or anything. I get home, started up again a few hrs later and the needle is burried way past the 110 psi level.

I check the wire to the gauge it seems ok could it just be the gauge going bad. What I don't get is how do they go bad? and is this common? again any help is appreiated.............


Sincerley, Perfect36 again!

WAYNE88N/A

For now, pull the sender unit off the engine (14mm wrench IIRC), spray it out real good with some contact cleaner/ brake care/ acetone, whatever, and reinstall it, making sure the threads are nice & clean...If the problem gets a little better, then gets worse again, the sending unit is bad.

You could use a seperate hand-held gage to take a direct reading from the stock location while idling to make sure you don't have a blown front cover o-ring or something else wrong...

Icemark

Sounds like either the sender is bad or the the e-shaft thermo valve has failed.