Dr. Righteous
Senior Member
- Joined
- May 13, 2016
- Posts
- 432
- Reaction score
- 468
- Location
- Jamestown TN
- Ram Year
- 2014
- Engine
- 5.7 hemi
Recently I changed out the leaky plastic oil/filter cooler assy on the wife's 300 for the improved all aluminum version.
There was lot of advice to replace both the coolant temp sensor and oil pressure sensor on that assembly and don't reuse the old ones. I ordered everything from RockAuto which is my usual 1 stop shop for car parts. This little voice in the back of my head kept repeating "only buy OEM sensors, only buy OEM sensors, only buy OEM sensors ". I must have thought "what? Can't hear you" So I got all that replaced last Saturday in the blazing heat with off and on thunderstorms. I had to worry about getting sun stroke and lightning struck in the same day. All together, oil changed, coolant topped off, we drove it to church Sunday, no problems. So the wife has to run to Cookeville (50 miles away) yesterday for a Dr. appointment. She calls me and said "the little yellow engine light came on; what does that mean?" Turns out it was running fine, no noise, running cool, all else seemed to be normal. When she got home, I put the code scanner on it. P0520 oil pressure switch/circuit error. The oil pressure sensor I just replace. It was not an OEM, the brand was United Motor Products. So basically I have to tear the car apart again and replace the sensor again with an OEM part to fix it right. I don't think there are any short cuts since all of this is beneath the intake manifold.
So, when you hear a little voice saying
"only buy OEM sensors, only buy OEM sensors, only buy OEM sensors ".
It it probably this guy
Listen,
It will save you some heartache.
There was lot of advice to replace both the coolant temp sensor and oil pressure sensor on that assembly and don't reuse the old ones. I ordered everything from RockAuto which is my usual 1 stop shop for car parts. This little voice in the back of my head kept repeating "only buy OEM sensors, only buy OEM sensors, only buy OEM sensors ". I must have thought "what? Can't hear you" So I got all that replaced last Saturday in the blazing heat with off and on thunderstorms. I had to worry about getting sun stroke and lightning struck in the same day. All together, oil changed, coolant topped off, we drove it to church Sunday, no problems. So the wife has to run to Cookeville (50 miles away) yesterday for a Dr. appointment. She calls me and said "the little yellow engine light came on; what does that mean?" Turns out it was running fine, no noise, running cool, all else seemed to be normal. When she got home, I put the code scanner on it. P0520 oil pressure switch/circuit error. The oil pressure sensor I just replace. It was not an OEM, the brand was United Motor Products. So basically I have to tear the car apart again and replace the sensor again with an OEM part to fix it right. I don't think there are any short cuts since all of this is beneath the intake manifold.
So, when you hear a little voice saying
"only buy OEM sensors, only buy OEM sensors, only buy OEM sensors ".
It it probably this guy
Listen,
It will save you some heartache.