Momentary FREAK with oil guage

[billschroeder5842]

So I'm driving my '69 to work--a rare occasion.

I'm driving down the road at about 30mph and I look down at the gauges and see the oil gauge at 5....HOLY SH....HORSE HOCKEY!

I quickly pull over and shut off....nothing sounded funny. I popped the hood and wiggled the wire to the sending unit.

I fired it up and watched the gauge creep sloooooowly up to 30 at idle. I continued to work and the gauge would read 45ish....I figured I was good. No issues the rest of the way. I do have a hi perf oil pump on the motor.

so....anyting to worry about? Was this a momentary gauge freak or an indicator of things to come? I put a new transistor voltage limiter in a couple of weeks ago and the gauge has been reading slow and "down 10" from the mechanical.

Thanks!

[billschroeder5842]

Drove home tonight.....OPs normal. I guess I'll chalk it up to a glitch in a 43 year old car.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

The factory gauges are notoriously inaccurate...I am running 2 electrical oil psi & water temp gauges hidden on pass side as back ups.... 

[Chryco Psycho]

It is hard for us to guess , it could just be a wiring glitch or a problem with the pump bypass sticking open

[Dino]

When my voltage limiter died I had all my gauges peg to the right, then drop back down and stay there.  After a while the oil gauge started working again but it's the same crazy stuff, it'll only go up to 10 psi where before it went up to 50.  Not sure if the gauge is damaged or not as the needle still moves.  I like my gauges to sort of give me the correct reading but yeah it's far from accurate.  I may have to go with Chris' idea and install some hidden gauges.

[billschroeder5842]

Well at least I'm paying attention to the gauge. Different readings can keep you guessing!