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1988 oil pressure ONLY reads 80

Posted: 8/1/13 8:47pmMessage 1 of 5
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mesa, AZ - USA
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Vette(s): 1988 Base C4.
Even if I turn the key just to light up the dash not to turn the car over the gauge reads 80. It has never read anything but 80. I have replaced all the oil pressure sensors. Still nothing different ? I have considered maybe Autozone sold me shit parts but I just don't want to chase a wire. Hours of work and lots of money because I pay someone to work on my car. Please help ! 
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Re: 1988 oil pressure ONLY reads 80

Posted: 8/1/13 9:22pmMessage 2 of 5
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Remove tan wire from sender. with a jumper, short tan wire to engine ground. Turn on  ign, gauge should read 0 pressure. If yes = bad sender. If = still 80, remove cluster, and repeat test by jumping tan wire at rear of cluster to ground. If gauge reads 0 = open tan wire to sender. If still 80 = bad cluster.

Pretty simple circuit, actually.
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Re: 1988 oil pressure ONLY reads 80

Posted: 8/9/13 4:30amMessage 3 of 5
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mesa, AZ - USA
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Remove the cluster ? The whole dash will come out for that ! Way expensive. Shit. I will post results when I get a chance to address this problem.
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Re: 1988 oil pressure ONLY reads 80

Posted: 8/20/13 8:56amMessage 4 of 5
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dont let all the wires scare you its not too bad a lot of it is computer related the gauge wireing diagram is in the haynes or chilton book  power to the dash and grounds thru the sendor simple stuff
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Re: 1988 oil pressure ONLY reads 80

Posted: 8/20/13 8:11pmMessage 5 of 5
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Stuck at 80 can be just a bad ground. I know because I've moved my tree off the block with a ss hose and I get the same reading unless I ground the tree (with the sensors) to the engine block with a ground wire. So maybe yours is just corroded enough and not grounding via the threads.
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