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Old 09-03-2018, 04:30 PM   #1
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2002 3.2 oil pressure oddities

Driving home from a bit of a road trip today, I was cruising down the freeway at about 3200rpms and noticed my oil pressure gauge doing odd things. Generally, the pressure shows normal around 45-50 PSI. However, it would randomly spike up (once tapped 8 bar) and then settle and be fine. Oil pressure at idle is normal, car runs fine. It is ENTIRELY possible it has done this since I installed the gauge, but not noticed it. I just happened to see it happen this time. 996 sender is relatively new (1.5k miles). Prob not an issue at all, just wondered if anyone had any thoughts.

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Those sending units are very unreliable.
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Old 09-05-2018, 07:13 AM   #3
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Those sending units are very unreliable.
Any suggestion of an "upgrade"?
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Old 09-05-2018, 10:00 AM   #4
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Any suggestion of an "upgrade"?
When i rebuilt my engine I installed a small VDO gauge & their sending unit in the opposite cam cover by tapping the block off plug with 1/8th" pipe threads
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Old 09-05-2018, 12:49 PM   #5
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When i rebuilt my engine I installed a small VDO gauge & their sending unit in the opposite cam cover by tapping the block off plug with 1/8th" pipe threads
That's a smart idea.
I ended up just getting the 14x1.5 VDO sender.
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996 sender is a rebranded vdo unit, yes?
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Old 09-05-2018, 09:45 PM   #7
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996 sender is a rebranded vdo unit, yes?
That’s what I thought too. Perhaps the better solution is to maintain the single dummy light sender in the stock location and place a dedicated pressure sender on the other side. Is it the pressure sender itself that is troublesome, or the dual unit in particular?

I have a VDO guage...

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