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[Lee Tilton]

My electronic Stewart oil pressure gauge will not work. When i attached the wire to the sender, the terminal stud kept spinning around. Is it possible I broke the sensor; broke a wire off the stud inside the sender? I'm pretty sure I have oil pressure since I can see the cams coated with oil by looking in the oil filler hole. Can the sender be tested? Is the sender available at a local auto parts store? Thanks in advance.

[Lee Tilton]

Oops, the gauge is an Autometer.

[Lee Tilton]

Bueller?

[Brandon]

Lee,
Are you using the factory sender/sensor or an Autometer-specific one? When I got my gauge set working (oil pressure & water temp) I went ahead and used the same brand for the senders. If I recall, the Autometer ones aren't exactly cheap and you may get lucky with a local shop having one on-hand else start burning up the phone lines of local speed shops...

Otherwise your best bet is to hit the Internet and see about overnight shipping unfortunately.

If I remember correctly, the nice thing is if you're still running the stock dash, with your '93 you can run a factory sender and still get a somewhat accurate picture of your oil pressure situation. It was the '94 and up models where the gauge turned into merely an idiot light I think...

Best of luck!
Brandon

[Lee Tilton]

Thanks Brandon. I am using the Autometer sender and have two new ones arriving today. I understand they are prone to failure. The reason for my questions is that I just put the motor back together, so I hope it is just coincidental that the sender failed at the same time. The motor runs fine, no noise, and like I said I can see oil getting to the cams. I will cross my fingers and hope the new sender does the trick.

[Lee Tilton]

Ended up being the sender. Problem is we mistakenly ordered the 0-80 psi sender and the car has a 0-100 gauge. Now the pressure reads high. At least we know we have oil pressure.