2g Oil Pressure Gauge

[one_fast_tsi]

My stock oil preasure gauge is pegged at high, even when the car is off. 95 2g awd. I just got this car and I am not totaly familar with it. Had a 1g so im not totaly lost either. Put an altenator on the car last weekend. Two days later I went out to start my car noticed my oil preasure gauge was pegged high. So i unhooked it from the sending unit, after making sure that there was oil in the engine. The gauge did not fall. So I unhooked the battery, thought that maybe it was getting power from somewhere. The gauge still did not fall off. So my question is if the sending unit was bad then the gauge would have fell off when unhooked and if it was an electrical problem in the car then the gauge would have fell off when I unhooked the battery correct?? So I am thinking that the cluster itself is messed up and I cannot handle this. I an just looking for other things to check before I go and get another instrument cluster. Also are all the turbo instrument clusters the same, meaning can I use one from and 99 Gst in my 95 awd talon. Thanks for any input

 

[EclipseTrbo420A]

My stock oil preasure gauge is pegged at high, even when the car is off. 95 2g awd. I just got this car and I am not totaly familar with it. Had a 1g so im not totaly lost either. Put an altenator on the car last weekend. Two days later I went out to start my car noticed my oil preasure gauge was pegged high. So i unhooked it from the sending unit, after making sure that there was oil in the engine. The gauge did not fall. So I unhooked the battery, thought that maybe it was getting power from somewhere. The gauge still did not fall off. So my question is if the sending unit was bad then the gauge would have fell off when unhooked and if it was an electrical problem in the car then the gauge would have fell off when I unhooked the battery correct?? So I am thinking that the cluster itself is messed up and I cannot handle this. I an just looking for other things to check before I go and get another instrument cluster. Also are all the turbo instrument clusters the same, meaning can I use one from and 99 Gst in my 95 awd talon. Thanks for any input

Hey I believe you are correct about what you have tested and what you think the problem is. How many miles are on your car ? I think a better Idea might be to not mess with the cluster incase you decided to sell the car ever and peopl will see the paint marks have been broken and then wonder why. Why dont you get an electric oil pressure gauge from autometer. I can get you a new one for around 80 bucks. Yes that an electric one, for some reason our local autozone is selling this for only 80 bucks, but if you dont want to go new you could always get on this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PRO-...ryZ33676QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

GoodLuck

 

[siceclipse]

any 2g TURBO (of course) cluster will work in your car, unless that new one is broken...

 

[one_fast_tsi]

Hey thanks for the fast replies. I actually have an autometer electrical oil preasure gauge that i think i am gonna put in. Just that needle not working is gonna drive me nuts

 

[redeclipse7782]

The oil pressure gauge sending wire is on the oil pump right below the alternator, I am willing to bet you damaged the wire, the connector on the wire, or unplugged the wire and forgot to put it back in when you changed your alternator. I believe the oil pressure gauge sending wire also shares the same wiring harness as the alternator. I believe there are 2 sending unit wires one for the oil light itself and one for the gauge you may have unplugged the wrong one or switched them on accident.

 

[DSMcrazy3]

The oil pressure gauge sending wire is on the oil pump.

That'd be the oil filter housing.

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Granted this is for a 1g, the setup is basically the same reguarding this. You can see the gauge sender is substatially bigger than the idiot light sender. You'll also notice the plug for the light sender is a push on type, while the gauge sender has I believe a screw type. I don't belive that one plug could be attatched to the other sender. That said, considering you just messed with the alternator I would guess that either the wire got damaged, or is most likely disconnected.

 

[Defiant]

PRESSURE.

Jesus.

 

[Gary 420A RS]

okay iam having problems with my unit as well i i have the oil preasure wire right does anyone have the other wires? i think i might have mine mixed up since they were broken i had to do some electrical repair. i have what i think is the idiot light switch but i have another dangling wire which connects to a plug mid way to the harness.

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

I just got another 95 GSX as a daily driver, the oil pressure gauge is stuck in the middle.

I checked the pressure sender unit and the wire is hooked up. I belive if there was a problem and it wasn't hooked up the needle would stay down. I had this problem with my other GSX that I fixed (just wire not connected).

The thing is the previous owner put some white face indiglo gauges. I really want to get rid of em, but I have to find stock ones. Could the gauge face cause the problem? I never opened the cluster up and played with the gauge face because I never had to.

 

[Defiant]

The thing is the previous owner put some white face indiglo gauges.

There's your trouble.

 

[silvercoupe97]

I just got another 95 GSX as a daily driver, the oil pressure gauge is stuck in the middle.

I checked the pressure sender unit and the wire is hooked up. I belive if there was a problem and it wasn't hooked up the needle would stay down. I had this problem with my other GSX that I fixed (just wire not connected).

The thing is the previous owner put some white face indiglo gauges. I really want to get rid of em, but I have to find stock ones. Could the gauge face cause the problem? I never opened the cluster up and played with the gauge face because I never had to.

Yup, Defiant is correct. Chances are, the black circle is getting caught on the overlay. If you want to fix it, now, then just remove your cluster and only take off the clear plastic cover. Next, take a fork and carefully pull the needle up...EVER SO SLIGHTLY...use both hands, one to pull up and the other to push down so that you don't yank the needle off it's post. You're goal here is only to get the bottom of the circle, that the needle protrudes from, off of the stupid overlays.

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

I took the overlays off, I practically had to dissemble the entire cluster. There was adhesive stuck to the stock faces so i cleaned them up. Everything works now, the oil pressure works now, but not good. While dissembling it it came apart. I guessed how it should be assembled. While the car is off it will be low/off. When the car is on and I drive, it wil make its way towards the half mark, and fluctate depending on throttle.

It will not go more than the half mark. I must have messed something up while putting it back together. I shouldve taken pics to reference.

With the cluster off and assembled I can move the oil pressure needle and it will just swing back down. Before It would hold whlerever I set it. So I believe I was half way right. Underneath the needle the pin is in the adjacent hole underneath, the 2 mounting holes that sit on top of something is perfect. Geez I'm not going to try anymore.

When I get my gauge cluster gauge pod, one will be boost and the other space I might as well get oil pressure.

 

[silvercoupe97]

Sound about right to me.