NO MORE OIL CHIME!!!!!one!!!! Reply #15 – August 11, 2010, 02:17:49 PM The search feature works :DI had the chime go off for an entire 35 mile trip and it was driving me insane. Not sure why, but the small sender doesn't seem to like synthetic oil. Anyway, I bought the larger unit and extension using the link above to BC Broncos and it arrived yesterday. I installed the new sender and oil pressure is 5 bars at idle, it tics up to 6 bars when cold, and goes as low as 4 bars (where it sat with the idiot light sender 'normally' when it wasn't chiming my brains out) at hot idle. I can't believe they replaced an actual pressure gauge that is useful with an idiot light sender that fails just as often as the larger unit. Anyway, glad I'm found this post - my car is drivable again :D Quote Selected
NO MORE OIL CHIME!!!!!one!!!! Reply #16 – August 11, 2010, 08:03:35 PM I need to look at mine. This could be considered a more accurate gauge after the swap...correct? Quote Selected
NO MORE OIL CHIME!!!!!one!!!! Reply #17 – August 13, 2010, 08:44:32 PM Quote from: mcb82gt;331527I need to look at mine. This could be considered a more accurate gauge after the swap...correct?Well, it goes from being essentially an idiot light that uses bars (4 = light off, 2 = oil light on) to being an actual gauge - albeit without actual pressure numbers for each bar. Perhaps V8 can give us an approximate correlation based on him also having a mechanical gauge to compare it to :D Quote Selected
NO MORE OIL CHIME!!!!!one!!!! Reply #18 – August 17, 2010, 10:36:30 AM so what is normal at warm/hot idle?4 or 5 bars?the only way i could ever see coming up with a psi relation to an individual bar would be to do the following live test.you would need to find a couple of nipples with a 1/4 turn cut off ball valve placed in the middle.you would have to have a provision for an external guage to mount after the cut off valve.all of this being said, you still would need to have your oem sender and wire hooked up.now document the psi with the cut off valve open log in the number of bars seennow rotate the cut off valve 25% closedlog in the psi reading and the qty of bars seennow rotate the cut off valve 50% closedlog in the psi readng and the qty of bars seenrotate cut off valve 75% closedlog in the psi reading and qty of bars seenplot it out on a chart and you might find the qty of bars showing is not linear with psi. you might also find that no two cars are the same.i wanted to do this test at one time until i thought about my previous statement being that no two electromechanical devices act exactly the same. The cloggage of the oil runner ports inside the block are always going to be different as well since people change thier oils differently and use different brands. Quote Selected
Where is the chime assembly? Reply #19 – August 18, 2010, 10:27:38 PM Chime doesn't work and headlights have gotten left on twice so far without the reminder and drained battery. Bought part, but can't find it under the dash. It has the electronic dash. Any help appreciated. Quote Selected
NO MORE OIL CHIME!!!!!one!!!! Reply #20 – August 18, 2010, 10:33:55 PM Quote from: azehner;332557Chime doesn't work and headlights have gotten left on twice so far and drained battery. Bought part, but can't find it under the dash.Its right above the fuse panel on my 88 Quote Selected
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