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ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Mon, 27 October 2003 13:32
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Okay - here's a simple one for all you ST162 drivers out there (both of you  ) Approximately at what level does the oil pressure guage on your car stay at? I remember mine used to lie between the middle point and go up higher towards the next 'break' in the gauge thingo if I revved it...after my engine rebuild (my first ever engine rebuild, and by god I hope I haven't screwed anything up) it sits around about the middle of the gauge, even when I rev the thing a fair bit, except of course when idling, where it's about 1/3 of the way up or so.
What about you guys? Have I fuxored anything up, or maybe the previous build of the engine had some kind of restriction in the oil flow thus increasing pressure???
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Canberra
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April 2003
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Mon, 27 October 2003 14:34
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My old one used to sit right down on zero  , well that was after the sender unit fucked out on me, originally I remember a long, long time ago in a galexy far, far away it used to sit a little bit into the middle section, and when I reved it, it went no more than half the middle section.
On the new engine, it seems to sit on the join from first to middle section, and when you give it a decent belting it goes up a bit.
This probably didn't help at all, I just thought I'd say it.  
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South Australia
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Mon, 27 October 2003 14:49
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So any clues why mine might be a little bit low? Maybe my oil pressure sender is playing up, we did take the oil pump out and reseal it but I'm fairly sure nothing went wrong there, otherwise things would be well more screwed than they are...
hmmm 
How fair up is a "bit" - mine may go just past the join of the first two sections, but not much more than a mm or so.
I guess when I think about it - the oil pressure (once the pump has hit a certain threshold) probably shouldn't change much - I mean, by design, these things pressurise the oil a certain geometrically defined ratio -> so as long as the pressure stays steady it should be okay - although the overall oil flow of the oil pump might change as revs rise, the pressure of the oil won't.
Any fluid dynamics dudes disagree?
My car idles at about 800rpm, and registers about 1/3 of the gauge, at about 1500 rpm, the gauge is a bit of the way off of the half way point, and at about 2500 it's fairly centred from there on.
Sound good?
[Updated on: Mon, 27 October 2003 14:54]
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Wahroonga
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June 2003
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Mon, 27 October 2003 22:32
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i'm not a good one to ask as my gauge read that there was a fair bit of pressure when there was no oil. 
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Epping, Sydney
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April 2003
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Mon, 27 October 2003 22:53
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LOL, deja vu pour moi.
mine used to sit on almost nothing at idle. Driving would take it up to 1/3 perhaps.
had a bit of a worry, got it tested, and the pressure came up gold, so inaccurate guage.
got a second hand one off the forums here and now it sits at about 1/4 and in driving goes up to half. So I must have some wiring issues perhaps causing signal issues?
I don't know what it is supposed to be, or what it read when the car came out, so as long as I can get a reading I can know how my oil is. I mean the fluctuation in the guage means it is working, yeah, but not just getting enough signal back to the dash (or through the little diaphram in the unit).
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Tasmania
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June 2003
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Location:
South Australia
Registered:
July 2002
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Mon, 27 October 2003 23:53
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Hrm - sounds like you can get just about any reading from that gauge. Maybe I'll just get it tested and that'll probably be that.
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Canberra
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April 2003
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Tue, 28 October 2003 13:45
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Having a bit more of a look at it today.
When idleing, it sits about half the first section, while in motion (about 2000 - 4000) it sits about 2mm into second setion, and when I give it a belting it goes no more than half the second section.
Well thats mine anyways
PS That is a sick avatar man, heaps better than your old one.
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South Australia
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July 2002
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Tue, 28 October 2003 23:36
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Yeah - I'm going to get my oil pressure checked next week just to see what's going on. At least the oil pressure gauge is reading fairly consistently.
What rating oil do you use by the way?
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Tasmania
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June 2003
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Wed, 29 October 2003 00:54
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| FWDboy wrote on Wed, 29 October 2003 10:36 |
What rating oil do you use by the way?
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I use 10w-50 Mobil Super XHP I was using Castrol magnatec but couldn't keep the oil in the car it kept dissaperaing but when i changed to XHP it didn't use any where near as much oil
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Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan
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January 2003
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Wed, 29 October 2003 01:37
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get yourself a nice VDO gauge.. electronic is easier to install, but mechanical is mroe accurate...
or get a Pricol version of the VDO
better than having an inaccurate gauge?
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South Australia
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July 2002
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Wed, 29 October 2003 06:46
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Good point, might have to wait for a few pay days on that one tho
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Location:
Canberra
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April 2003
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Re: ST162 3S-GE oil pressure q.
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Thu, 30 October 2003 13:55
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In mine I wasn't sure so I rang Neale Bates automotive and asked for recomendations, cause I wasn't sure for the Turbo, The engines done 160K, They said I would be best to use 20w-50 because of the engines age, (this is a 1988 engine) the brand they recomended was caltex Havoline Premium.
I was the same as Skinnypoo used to used Castrol Magnatec and it kept dissapearing, but this new stuff works pretty well.
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