502 oil pressure question yet again
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502 oil pressure question yet again
i have a pair of year 2000 502 mag mpis 415 hp ,problem is at start up oil pressure on gauge reads over 40 the second it is reved at all it drops right of the gauge ran it tonight only up to 3000 rpm and the gauge went right of the scale !mechanic says he has changed the sender but he reckons its more major than that now , or has he ?????? please help also getting intermitent alarm bleep hit the trim button and it goes away sometimes !
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The first thing you need to do, is hook up a mechanical guage to verify that there is no problem with your dashboard electric guage. If in fact the oil pressure is dropping as your dash guage indicates, I would suspect that the pick up has come off the pump.
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vinny thanks so much ,where do ifind the pick up on the pump,
the gauge says over 40 on idle , if you rev it it very quicly the gauge flickers fast , then onnce you running it drops of the scale completely , is the pump an easy fix ?
the gauge says over 40 on idle , if you rev it it very quicly the gauge flickers fast , then onnce you running it drops of the scale completely , is the pump an easy fix ?
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ok i will try to hook up a mechanical pump, rang my guy who looks after it reckons do the gauge thing any way first ,but if not that its engine out check the pump and do the bottom shells and see !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sounds expensive on an engine that has done 335 hours what do you reckon
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Like the others said, test it with a mechanical gauge. If it is good it sounds like you have a ground problem. Usually when gauges flicker or change when switches are activated it is usually a bad ground.
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I certainly would not let him pull the engine without putting a mechanical guage on it first.
I agree that its probably an electrical short somewhere and the pressure is most likely fine.
I agree that its probably an electrical short somewhere and the pressure is most likely fine.
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do the mechanical gauge, if it does the same, try adding 3 extra qts of oil see if changes, if it helps, good bet the pick up has come off..time for the engine to come out..Rob