crazykid1994
Senior Member
That’s what I was thinking too but didn’t want to say it if I was wrong. LolOil temp if I had to guess.
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That’s what I was thinking too but didn’t want to say it if I was wrong. LolOil temp if I had to guess.
The grey one in the picture is oil pressure and the black one is oil temp.Right above the oil filter. I’m actually curious what the other sensor pictured is though.
A reliable dodge mechanic has told me that the oil pressure gauge on the ram is inaccurate to say the least.Question for you, 16 Ram Larmine sport,, 4x4 5.7, 8 speed, 3.21 gears. 65k miles, only mod is a catch can.
Running 5w30 redline and Rp 20 820 filter, less than 1500 miles on oil change.
Here is issue, at speed oil psi 53, at cold idle 58 psi (start up) at warm idle 48 psi.
Oil PSI after 2 hours of driving, upon stopping 39 to 41. Cut off truck immediately restart oil psi 48?
I'm thinking oil sending unit, or pcv valve.
Truck has been on redline since 10k, steady diet of srt filters or rp 20 820,
Never had this issue before. Fuel mileage 18 mpg on real gas.
This just happened driving from Montana to Minnesota. Avg temp, 10. degrees, -2 start up to 22 stop.
Thoughts? no startup knock, no noises, Truck performed flawlessly.
Appreciate any thoughts
The paranoia comes from the issue progressing as mentioned by the OP and the oil pressure keeps dropping until it's 28 on the road and 8 at idle. Then you take it in to the dealer and he says, "Not really sure what's wrong with your 6.4 Hemi but you have metal shavings in the oil and we can fix the problem for $12k! This happened to me, just got it out of the shop and they said if I wanted to pay $4k they could tear the engine down and find out what happened. No noises, no drop in performance, just loss of oil pressure and engine is gone. This happened with only 120K miles on the engine. I'm 59, the truck isn't getting abused and gets the oil changed far sooner than required. I'm gun shy on the damn thing now, the very first engine was one of the improperly built 6.4 that hat the wrong wristpins. It lasted all of 5k Miles. So 8 year old truck with 125k miles and now on it's third engine.Whats with all the paranoid threads lately with oil PSI like mentioned above the guage in truck is not all that accurate your numbers sound normal I get 23 PSI hot idle so your doing dam good!.