Low oil pressure

[ed124]

Hi,

On Friday afternoon I went to my garage and tried to check the oil pressure manually, but we couldn't get the manual gauge fit (at least not before it was time for people to get a beer .

Anyway we put two bottles of 5in1 oil stabilizer in for now. Has anyone experiences with that stuff?

Oil pressure didn't go up much, but the flashing at idle has stopped. Time to have some fun with driving first..

Ed

[bradartigue]

As noted earlier, it is most likely just the gauge. Veglia gauges, which were used on everything from FIATs to Lamborghinis, aren't exactly precision instruments. The tachometers are rarely accurate, the oil pressure gauges read low, the water temperature gauges read high, the clocks fog up, the speedometers drag, and the fuel gauges flop around like there are fish in your tank.

If your oil pressure warning light is flickering at idle you have a problem (or a bad sender); otherwise you just have a standard FIAT gauge. If you change the sender or the gauge it will read differently and probably be wrong again, just it's own kind of wrong.

In 1979 FIAT did away with the gauge because people asked too many questions about them. That's my theory anyway.