Hi everyone, am hoping someone will be able to reassure me as I have the dreaded low oil pressure reading.
The car is off road and ever since I've had it the pressure has been between 1 and 0 on idle.
The car starts first time in all weather and idles smoothly, on acceleration there are no knocks squeals bangs etc and the guage does rise on acceleration up to 2 and a bit above, when u ease off the throttle the guage drops to 0 and occasionally rises to 1.
There's no excessive smoke, no sludge under the oil filler and the oil smells normal and is topped up.
I have run it to temp around 80 degrees and left it running and it doesn't cut out or stall and ticks over smoothly.
If I didn't have a guage i would not even consider there to be a problem but have read so many threads that I can't see the wood for the trees.
If, I do have a problem,what are the tell tale signs as running wise I can't fault it, and there are no obvious issues, ie overheating/stalling irrational idling etc and it hasn't got galactic miles on the clock the odometer reads 76000 and by the inside condition and the fact the driver seat is excellent I am inclined to believe it although I have no history.. I am hoping it's just a naff guage but I hoped someone might have a similar situation. Thanks guys
The car is off road and ever since I've had it the pressure has been between 1 and 0 on idle.
The car starts first time in all weather and idles smoothly, on acceleration there are no knocks squeals bangs etc and the guage does rise on acceleration up to 2 and a bit above, when u ease off the throttle the guage drops to 0 and occasionally rises to 1.
There's no excessive smoke, no sludge under the oil filler and the oil smells normal and is topped up.
I have run it to temp around 80 degrees and left it running and it doesn't cut out or stall and ticks over smoothly.
If I didn't have a guage i would not even consider there to be a problem but have read so many threads that I can't see the wood for the trees.
If, I do have a problem,what are the tell tale signs as running wise I can't fault it, and there are no obvious issues, ie overheating/stalling irrational idling etc and it hasn't got galactic miles on the clock the odometer reads 76000 and by the inside condition and the fact the driver seat is excellent I am inclined to believe it although I have no history.. I am hoping it's just a naff guage but I hoped someone might have a similar situation. Thanks guys
