Oil pressure a little high, engine running a little cool....

[Ludichris]

So, I am still getting the loss of coolant thing looked into, and just had a question about oil pressure - I am the type of driver that looks at all the gauges FREQUENTLY while I drive, and I know that this morning when I looked, I kept waiting for the oil pressure to drop down to where I normally see it, but it never did, and it was even a little higher at idle. It isn't dangerously high or anything, just maybe 5-10 PSI higher than where I normally see it. The idle reading is easier to remember, because that one's almost always at the '40' mark on the gauge at idle. This morning, it was hanging out around probably 47 PSI or so. Is there anything I should be concerned about or look into that would cause a spike in oil pressure?

The other really weird thing, is that we're having mild weather right now, and this morning it was probably in the mid 60's, so definitely not "cold". My car took basically forever to get up to 180. I thought for a few minutes my Scan Gauge II was broken or something, because it just STAYED at 177 degrees.....and eventually, over the next 10 minutes or so, only made it up to about 192. Normally my drive to work is plenty to get it full-hot/warmed up, but this morning my car was acting strange with the coolant temp and oil pressure. Anything to worry about? Or was my car just having a bad hair day?

[harofreak00]

Nothing is wrong, you are just way to overly paranoid.

Higher oil pressure is always a GOOD thing. People pay to have their oil pressure higher: http://intense-racing.com/Merchant2/mer ... 800_Engine

Any operating temp between 160-200 is fine.

[Ludichris]

Nothing is wrong, you are just way to overly paranoid.

Higher oil pressure is always a GOOD thing. People pay to have their oil pressure higher: http://intense-racing.com/Merchant2/mer ... 800_Engine

Any operating temp between 160-200 is fine.

LOL....yeah, I probably am, I'd just never seen it take that long to warm up, or the pressure where it was this morning, and with the coolant loss problem that I'm still looking into.....just figured I'd ask. Thank you!

[01bonneSC]

Nothing is wrong, you are just way to overly paranoid.

Higher oil pressure is always a GOOD thing. People pay to have their oil pressure higher: http://intense-racing.com/Merchant2/mer ... 800_Engine

Any operating temp between 160-200 is fine.

I have one I never installed, Ill sell for $15 +shipping.

[J Wikoff]

Your thermostat may be weak and the water pump is pushing water past it.

[RJolly87]

Or you have a FailSafe unit in there that locked open when you overheated.

Usually when they lock open, it is pretty obvious because it takes forever to warm up, if it ever does.

[Ludichris]

Or you have a FailSafe unit in there that locked open when you overheated.

Usually when they lock open, it is pretty obvious because it takes forever to warm up, if it ever does.

Your thermostat may be weak and the water pump is pushing water past it.

What is a 'FailSafe' unit - I'm just not familiar with that -is that a 'type' of t-stat? It definitely warms up, I noticed it went past 200 degrees last night, which I realize is QUITE normal while sitting at a stop light, just wondering if maybe my t-stat was weakened by the overheating the other day. I mean, on the highway it used to hover around high 190's and sometimes go over 200, now it seems to want to hover in the low 180's and occasionally get up into the 190's.

I know a t-stat is a simple, cheap fix, just that several other things (non car related) all came at once, and although it may sound ridiculous to some....for the next couple weeks or so I have to watch every penny and not spend any unnecessary ones.

It's fine, right? I mean, as long as it warms up...so what if suddenly it's 10-15 degrees cooler than before - right??

[nos4blood70]

Even with a tune, Penny runs about 5-7 degrees one way or another depending on the weather. I don't think you should worry.

[J Wikoff]

A failsafe thermo is engineered in a way that when the spring gives up, it contracts and leaves the port open so that the engine doesn't overheat. Yours taking so long to heat up made me think yours has a weakened spring. I've seen a few that eventually were easy to push open by hand.

[Ludichris]

Yeah, several days after the overheating...and she's still definitely running cool. Frankly, I don't mind it at all, just wondering if I'm going to be rolling down the road sometime soon and she's going to drop into the cool zone, like too cool for the engine to run properly.

As silly as it sounds, I don't have money to replace a thermostat until two weeks from today. I'm taking a 400 mile (round trip) road trip to Illinois next weekend. Hopefully it will stay nice and warm and not fail.

[RJolly87]

It will never get to 'too cool to run properly'.

Worst case scenario, the thing locks dead open, the car spends forever trying to warm up, running rich. Sets code, may cause other problems down the line, etc.

Don't stress too much over it.

[reb]

Just had the same issue. Thermostat was stuck open.

[rcarlisle]

My wife's 03 GP GT had similar situation - would not get up to "normal" temp and heat wasn't working. I replaced t-stat and hoses, flushed coolant. Put back together. Ran fine to home (40 miles). Next morning, stepped on it to pass a car and looked like a race car blowing engine. Got stopped, got water, started putting it back in to see if it would come out and coolant elbow had busted big time. Might have been the problem all along, but definitely something to check if you haven't. And something to replace if you do get in there working, if they haven't been done. And the parts stores know what you mean when you say "elbows". : )

Randy

[00Beast]

He just had them fixed, lol. So that's hopefully not the issue...

[Ludichris]

He just had them fixed, lol. So that's hopefully not the issue...

Haha....I didn't see that post, but yes, I replaced those elbows with the aluminum ones. Everything seems to be buttoned up and no leaks now. The problem was the t-stat, I still want to take a picture of it at some point - it's in there all crooked, like not centered, must have happened when it overheated when my plastic coolant elbow broke in half! All good now though.