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The big block had it behind the PS pump on the side of the block in some years.
1990 Suburban oil pressure gauge only reads 30 PSI
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Have seen people question whether or not the sensor had good ground connection due to thread sealant. Something I'm gonna try related to that, is to run a dedicated ground wire from (-) battery and fasten it to case of oil sender with hose clamp. Already did that with O2 sensor.
Also, that ceramic film resistor on oil gauge may be flaky. I fixed my fuel gauge problem by "repairing" the resistor. You need those collars on ceramic piece to make good contact with the housing, so i reused it. scraped off the resistive material (gotta get it ALL off) between the terminals and soldered a pair of 180 ohm wire wound resistors across the ceramic collars for the nominal 90 ohms. my fuel gauge WAS reading low, now reads good. Same could apply to low oil gauge.
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Did that dedicated ground on the O2 sensor make a notable difference? Asking because I get intermittant (come and go kind of randomly) lean code 44 errors on the SES light, but visually examining a pulled plug doesn't seem to indicate an overly lean burn. I've contemplated doing what you just described, but wasn't sure about if the wire would melt or the clamp would fail being right on an exhaust component.
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I didn't use any additional thread sealer other than a tiny amount of blue stuff that came on the threads of a new unit. I did remove my sending unit and checked it with air compressor, finding out it's quite inaccurate especially in low pressure region and more likely calibrated to 0-90 PSI instead of 0-60 PSI. More details in this thread: https://www.gmsquarebody.com/threads/oil-pressure-sending-unit-odd-readings-test-results.44011/
Afterwards I've installed it with a bit of PTFE tape, but I did check the resistance between the sensor and engine ground to be below 1 ohm.
I'll check it again and also try to adjust resistance to match the sensor I have. But I'll probably wait until I'll be refurbishing dash or at least have more reasons to disassemble it.
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