Oil pressure with 5.0

[frogman]

I did some searching and didn't find anything on here. I swapped a 5.0 in and now that warm weather is coming around, my oil pressure is dropping to nothing (according to the gauge) at idle after the truck is warm. Has anyone else seen this in theirs? I am running 10w30, what are you guys running? Temp wise, the water temp is staying around 190s. I don't have a way to check the oil temp that I know of.

Summer is coming, I need to make sure this thing is going to survive it.

Thanks for the input,
Clay

 

[frogman]

I found this today, has anyone tried shorting that resistor? Does anyone have a better way to get a proper reading?

http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/693315-curing-the-dummy-oil-pressure-gauge-3-0l.html

 

[win]

Surest path is to use a mechanical gauge. There are a couple locations to use, the OEM sender site possibly the easiest.

Quick, easy and you can either confirm a true pressure problem or just an indicator issue.

 

[dangerranger83]

All it needs is 15-50psi and you are good.

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[frogman]

Thanks for the responses. I was curious was the low side should be, the best thing I found was a random '10 psi per thousand RPM" which I didn't fully believe.

I will consider a mechanical gauge, but I want to see what the computer will tell me when I plug into it. I am curious if it will give me the exact pressure or if it is simple good/bad.

Thanks for the info!