6.0 oil pressure

[elm302]

What should my oil pressure be around ideling mine is around 30 to 50 psi in the morning is this to low or am I ok have been having ruff starts and wondering if i have a oil pressure problem thanks guys

[Big Mule]

At your first start up 30 to 50 seems some what normal. On a cold start up mine is always at 50 on the nose. I get to 15 psi once warmed up and I am sitting at stop light. On a descent accelleration I can get as high as 75 psi.

[elm302]

with my high idle on i saw it at like 80 or something

[Squid4life]

Originally Posted by elm302

What should my oil pressure be around ideling mine is around 30 to 50 psi in the morning is this to low or am I ok have been having ruff starts and wondering if i have a oil pressure problem thanks guys

Where are you checking your pressure from? Is it tapped into the top of the filter lid, or somewhere else?

[elm302]

my oil bypass kit has a gauge in the oil filter cap

[Squid4life]

Nice... I was thinking about that if I can get my hands on the filter caps. How you like your bypass? Been considering that as well.

[elm302]

i like it alot easy to install and since i travel alot it should pay off in the long run i recommend it

[Squid4life]

You using for getting more miles out of the oil mostly? How long between changes are you planning?

[elm302]

ya i hope more miles i switched to syn last oil change when i installed the kit and noticed it was quiter when ideling and i think im gonna shoot for 15 k the firts with changing the stock oil filter every 7.5k and then the next oil change try to go 20k but will see the oil has stayed alot cleaner with the set up and i have around 3k so far so will see what happens

[Squid4life]

No change in driveability or performance with the synth? The dealer weas telling me to avoid it since they were not sure how it affected injector pressures with different lubricity and viscosity. Can't see how synth could be worse than dino though... Might try it myself, still undecided. Need to find a place that stocks one brand regularly that is not crazy priced. You running Valvoline or Mobil 1?

Is there a post here about your DIY coolant kit? I would like to do that in the future as well. All kinds of crap to do to this thing!