Oil Pressure Gauge is pegged.

[drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca (drew)]

Sounds to me like your guage circuit is open.  Your needle will peg if
there is infinite resistance on the sender circuit to ground (ie your
sender is not there.)

It takes a few seconds for the needle to drop because it's been pegged for
a while and gets stuck... :)

Doublecheck your wiring - short the sender wire to ground in the engine
compartment and use a multi-meter at the guage to check that you've got
continuity to ground.

Drew

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Jason Adams wrote:

> Was working fine... damn, I swapped dashes and now the gauge pegs to +5bar
> when I turn the car on. and stays pegged after I shut the car off for about
> 6 seconds...
> 
> just to be sure on the connections...
> 
> +       --- +12V
> _ |_   --- Ground
> G      --- Gauge
> 
> Everything was working fine a week ago... what's up here?
> 
> Jason Adams
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Drew MacPherson - '84 Wolfsburg Edition Scirocco TurboDiesel