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Originally Posted by MotorvateDIY
This is a great idea! I will add my results in a few days.
If your pressure sensor mounts in a sandwich plate, you are measuring the oil pressure going INTO the oil filter. This reading will be higher than the actual engine oil pressure, since it takes some pressure to push the oil through the filter.
If your pressure sensor is mounted in the factory location, you are measuring the oil pressure AFTER the oil filter.
On a future episode MotorvateDIY Garage, we will show how much pressure it takes to push oil through the oil filter.
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First and foremost, I would like to sincerely thank you for your youtube videos. The throttle relearn and how to check oil pressure ones have been very helpful. I went down the rabbit hole and was worried that my gallery gaskets might be bad but, after installing an oil pressure gauge, I believe that I'm good. I show 114 at cold start up and 27 after warming up at idle.( I still need to log what it's at at 2K, 3K, etc.) I installed a mini OLED gauge with the fitting in the sandwich plate. You have stated that this will give me a slightly higher reading than actual engine pressure due to it being pre-filter. Do you know approximately how much higher that this would read as my numbers look good but, I am interested in what would be considered low with my set up.
So far I love the OLED as it's less than 1-1/2" squared and easily attaches with Velcro pretty much anywhere!!