[T2] Unsteady oil pressure and temp

[T2] Unsteady oil pressure and temp

Dave Horrigan davehorrigan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 14:13:09 MST 2014


Pressure down and temp down at the same time, then back again? Sounds more like a bad electrical connection (ground or 12V). For me pressure always goes down with temp increase.

Dave

> On 15 Jul 2014, at 09:08 pm, Sami Dakhlia <sami.dakhlia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's what I found odd: after a good hour of driving, oil temp
> slowing climbed to the 240F mark, while oil pressure remained steady
> at around 24 psi. (The figures are approximate.) Then the pressure
> reading suddenly dropped to about 18 psi and the oil temp dropped at
> well, down to 220F over the next couple of minutes.
> An hour later, the opposite happened, the pressure went up to 24 psi
> and oil temp crept up to 240, then 250 F. 


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