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its located next to the oil filter
Check with a manual gauge to confirm no oil pressure Could just be a bad oil sending unit Could be a bad oil pump Excessive engine wear
Need to hook up a oil pressure gauge in the place were the oil sending unit is on the engine and see what the gauge reads, You should have no less then 20 LBS. at a idle. If it does not have oil pressure then pump is bad.
Your oil temperature gauge will connect to the oil pressure sensor. The water temperature gauge will hook up to the water temperature sensor. The oil pressure sensor will be on the left-hand side of the engine and the water temperature sensor will be on the front of the engine.
The oil gauge shows the oil's temperature. The oil pressure gauge monitors the oil pressure for your viewing pleasure.
Connect the wiring harness to the back of your oil pressure gauge. Secure the oil pressure gauge with the retaining screws.
Yes, that is a good place for an oil pressure guage. Try to keep the tube away from exhaust heat.
Might be worn main and connecting rod bearings. Purchase a manual oil pressure gauge, and install the gauge where the oil pressure light is hooked into. Pressure should be between 40- 60 psi. If not, then you need to remove the oil pan, and hook up a pressure checker to the spot where you installed the manual pressure gauge, and pressurize the bearings, and see how the oil drips off of the bearings. Should just drip, if bearing is good.
Defective gauge, defective oil pressure sending unit, low of oil, defective oil pump.
There are two different answers here: Older cars - an actual oil line from the engine came into the passenger compartment and was attached to a gauge that read "actual" oil pressure in the engine, so it was actual pressure that made the gauge go up and down. Newer cars - a special unit, called a "sender", is mounted on the engine to monitor engine oil pressure. This "sender" will allow more voltage to go through itself the more oil pressure it monitors. The less pressure it monitors the less voltage. The gauge goes up and down depending on the amount of voltage the "sender" is sending to the gauge.
Six-year the oil pressure gauge for your 1999 Mitsubishi eclipse with the retaining screws. Connect the oil pressure gauge wiring harness.
The temp gauge sensor screws into the driver side head atoms #2 and #3 plugs. The volt gauge hooks up to any ignition on hot wire and the other wire to chasis ground. Oil pressure gauge is just behind the distributor.