Oil Pressure Gauge is pegged.

[roclist@accessconsulting.ca (Jason Adams)]

So I grounded the wire from the sender, gauge reads zero, the ground on the
gauge taps into the voltmeter and oil temp gauge and they're working
fine....

so i guess my sender is toast?

Jason Adams
Fahrvergnugen Forever! ;)
84 rocco 16v
93 320i
98 Z71

----- Original Message -----
From: "drew" <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca>
To: "Jason Adams" <roclist@accessconsulting.ca>
Cc: "0sciroccolist" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Oil Pressure Gauge is pegged.


>
>
> Sounds to me like your guage circuit is open.  Your needle will peg if
> there is infinite resistance on the sender circuit to ground (ie your
> sender is not there.)
>
> It takes a few seconds for the needle to drop because it's been pegged for
> a while and gets stuck... :)
>
> Doublecheck your wiring - short the sender wire to ground in the engine
> compartment and use a multi-meter at the guage to check that you've got
> continuity to ground.
>
> Drew
>
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Jason Adams wrote:
>
> > Was working fine... damn, I swapped dashes and now the gauge pegs to
+5bar
> > when I turn the car on. and stays pegged after I shut the car off for
about
> > 6 seconds...
> >
> > just to be sure on the connections...
> >
> > +       --- +12V
> > _ |_   --- Ground
> > G      --- Gauge
> >
> > Everything was working fine a week ago... what's up here?
> >
> > Jason Adams
> > Fahrvergnugen Forever! ;)
> > 84 rocco 16v
> > 93 320i
> > 98 Z71
> >
> >
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>
> Drew MacPherson - '84 Wolfsburg Edition Scirocco TurboDiesel
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