i just changed my oil the other day and the gauge is on high

 

i dont know to much about trucks but i changed my oil 2 days ago and why is my oil temp on high insted of in the middle of low and high thanks i know it sounds stupied

 

1. That would be oil pressure not temperature.
2. What weight oil did you use? How much oil did you put in? Changed the pcv valve and or breather lately/ever?
3. Could be a bad sensor, though I can't explain why it went bad at time of oil change. I don't know 100% but there should be some type of check ball/valve in the oil pump that regulates pressure, if it is sticking that could cause high pressure.

My 2 cents.

 

it was 10w 40

 

how much though?

 

5qt thats as much as it could hold b4 it reached the full line

 

My 95 Dakota club cab 4x4 318 (176,000 miles) runs about 55-60 lbs running down the road with 10-40 in it. I just pulled an idenical donor 95 on a toter from Laverkin Ut to the southwest corner of Wyoming and the oil pressure stayed the same even on some long step grades (3 to 6%) where it was bound to get warm.

 

probably a quart over unless you have the 318.