had a bit of a brown trouser moment with the zed today.

 

left work and started to head home, and noticed the oil pressure gauge suddenly went to 0... :blink:... threw it onto the curb and shut the engine down thinking, im losing oil or something, and found nothing wrong???

 

i think i read somewhere its pretty common for the pressure sender to fail. can anyone confirm this? or is there a fuse?

Standard nissan pressure sender is known for failing and giving spurious readings. You really want to get a mechanical pressure gauge and check the pressure to be sure the engine is still making good oil pressure.

Yes usually a duff/dying or dead pressure sender, Nissan OEM was around £70 a while back maybe more now, have seen some on ebay cheaper, but you take your chance lol

When the oil pressure sender fails like that does it mean you won't get a low pressure warning light on the dash or does it stay on?

there is a post on here somewhere with a after market one that works and is about £30

my JDM Z32 doesnt have an oil pressure light, just the gauge, which works when it wants to :/

 

only my US Z31 had both the gauge and the light

When the oil pressure sender fails like that does it mean you won't get a low pressure warning light on the dash or does it stay on?

 

There is no light mate....

 

....the guage reads normal oil pressure when cold, but once up to temperature the needle drops to zero - or just above zero - during normal running. Sometimes the reading is intermittent; it sometimes reads normal and fluctuates between that and zero pressure!!

 

Richard

Nice one guys. Reason I asked is I don't have the standard rev counter so no oil pressure gauge just the aftermarket one. When the engine goes back I don't need to do the relocation of the sender I had planned as I was only going to do it for the warning light:thumbup1:

Nissan is over £100+vat lol... :blink: and not much cheaper to me lol.

 

i wanted a more accurate gauge anyway maybe ill just fit an after market one in

nice car mate looks great

if u get oil pressure gauge with a small sensor ... you can fit it on the oil branch where the filter is .. No need for adapter plate for one sensor

my after market oil pressure gauge, from cold start would shoot to around 100, then drop down as the temp increases, would sit around 20 in the gauge unless you accelerate then it would climb to 60 until you lifted off the throttle. then it would settle back down to 20.

 

shall be stripping that bugger off the engine once i get my new zed as it always seemed to be accurate.