69 Bee 383 oil pressure sender question

[MikeyM]

Hey all,

Happy Friday. As my 383 warms up and reaches close to the 1st tick on the pressure gauge, it's around 20+ PSI at idle. But when fully warm at idle reads 10 psi with the Rallye dash cluster. I feel that's kind of low but have read that 10-20 is fine. my sending unit is a 90 psi Standard Ignition unit but I think I read that the sender should be an 80 psi unit. I guess my question is - should I get a different sender? One that is spec'd at 80 PSI instead of 90? Is my concern a big deal?

Thanks much,
Mikey

 

[Don Frelier]

A mechanical gauge will leave little doubt.

See if you can rig one up and run both for comparison. (note readings on each)
Otherwise you will always be guessing.

 

[MikeyM]

True. Thanks Don. I have a mechanical gauge on order so we'll see what happens when it gets here.