General consensus hot idle oil pressure?

[RCash]

Hello all,

Just picked up my first diesel, a 2004. 5 3500 and I must say I am hooked. But never really being involved with diesels outside of the Army, I really don't have a "feel" for what a decent hot idle oil pressure should be for one of these items that has 63000 on the odometer. I have dyno oil in Valvoline 15W-40 and am slowly getting all the fluids swapped out for Amsoil (the brand that has treated me so well with all my gas rides).



Any opinion would be appreciated.

 

[mberry]

As long as the guage shows oil pressure, you're good to go. The guage is really a fake guage. It gets its signal from the ECM, not from a pressure sensor/sending unit. If you really want to know what your pressures are, install manual guages. First one should be a fuel pressure guage.

 

[RCash]

Thanks friend, appreciate it. I'm planning on a full rack of gauges and this one will be in the first round.

 

[mberry]

No problem and welcome to the TDR.