Im on my way home from work..cruising along..and i look down and my Check Gages light is on..i check my gas first...half tank..and i see my oil pressure is pegged at 0!! I freak out and instantly pull over and shut the car off..i pop the hood...look around for leaks..check under the car..and i pull the dipstick out..and its right where its supposed to be..car runs, respondes, acts fine.

Is there a Oil gauge sensor somewhere? I mean its obviously not gonna affect the car...but id like to take care of it. Thanks!

 

It will effect the car if it don't have enough oil pressure!!!!!! BOOM
There is a sending unit.I would put a manual guage on it and see.

 

Bad guage?

 

Now see you obviously did read the entire thread bro...the car HAS oil in it....THe sending unit im assuming went dead...I had to drive the car home the rest of the way..and it drives fine..just the gauge is not working. So if it had no oil pressure..it woulda blew probably 10seconds after that gauge dropped. Thats not the problem..the motor has oil..the oils getting to where it has to go....back to my original question.

 

"So if it had no oil pressure..it woulda blew probably 10seconds after that gauge dropped."

not really man...

you could easily drive a few miles on no oil i think.

i agree with the above...put a guage on it and see what happens

 

ok put it this way..i had to drive a good 10-20 miles the rest of the way home...and the cars fine.

 

Well,don't take advise.

Why did ya ask.

 

now dont take what i said the wrong way..but i clearly stated..the motor has oil...and drives fine. If it was something along the lines of even a spun bearing or something..the gauge would read really low..not just sit there pegged at 0.

i called a dealership and found out there is an oil pressure sensor...that its ONLY job..is to send the readings to that gauge...so just because it dosent work..dosent mean the cars not gonna get oil pressure. You would clearly know if the motor wasnt getting oil..and the dipstick tube(which i said was fine) would of been low, or empy if i had no oil pressure.

 

Really, it sounds like a sender problem, or a bad connection or wire.

 

If you have zero oil pressure, the lifters would be making a racket.

 

Agreed...im sure the motor would be making some pretty horrible noises...she runs,idles, drives fine..so its just the sensor..picked a new one up today for 30$...now to pull the intake back off...damnit!

 

Installed the sensor today...no problems..gauge is back to working order. Thanks for the replies guys!