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Oil Pressure
96 250 at idle gage goes to no pressure as soon as the RPM goes up a little past idle the pressure reads normal any answers?

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Oil pressure indicator is driven by a switch & resistor, not a variable sensor. I heard somewhere that the switch flips at about 5 lb. You have a problem somewhere if the switch is off at idle; possible that the oil pump is tired. Give thought to adding a real oil pressure guage.
 
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