dhdev
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Registered: 22nd Dec 05
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What oil pressure should I be seeing on my C16XE.
At the moment I'm seeing approx 50-55psi on cold idle, 45-50psi when running and driving, but I've raised my idle to 2krpm as when hot the oil pressure dropped quite low, now maintains approx 35psi at 2krpm.
Cheers Oli.
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Superlite Ltd.
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Registered: 9th Jan 07
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Show me your gauge, i want to fit oil temp and oil pressure gauges to my c16xe
Will look in haynes later bout what pressure oil should be at. Working at the moment...
...well, should be
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dhdev
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Registered: 22nd Dec 05
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Here's a couple of piccies
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Vaux Lad
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Registered: 15th Dec 04
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How low did it go on hot idle?
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dhdev
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Registered: 22nd Dec 05
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Think the warning light is set at 20psi, as soon as I saw that I raised it up.
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Vaux Lad
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What was your idle speed set to?
According to engine data books, idle pressure at 80c oil temperature should be a minimum of 1.5bar(about 21psi)
At 800/900 rpm.
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dhdev
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Registered: 22nd Dec 05
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Idle speed is a bit hit and miss as its running TB's and I was having probs with the TPS. I'll lower the idle speed back down tonight and see what sort of pressure I'm getting. Cheers for the info Vaux Lad!
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Vaux Lad
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My x16xe pressure sits on the first mark on a nova oil pressure gauge, when the engines hot and idling.
Fook knows what the marks represent in actual pressure tho,lol.
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dhdev
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Registered: 22nd Dec 05
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When its up to temp (80ºC) the oil pressure at 1100rpm is 22-23psi, so I'm happy with that.
Lowered the warning light to 18psi, so hopefully I won't have reason to panic in the future
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