Hello friends!! i have a Dakota 2001 with V6 Magnum 3.9 engine, and i never been looking the oil pressure gasket until last week when arrived to home and see all the gauges just for curiosity and i saw a low oil pressure, i accelerate a couple of times the engine until 2000 rps and i saw the oil pressure going ups, but at 700 rpms aprox the oil pressure is down. i toke a photo to share and i want to know if thar is normal, i have aprox less than 1000 miles since the last oil change.

 

That's normal. As with most OEM clusters, anything between the hash marks is "good". May be 7 psi, may be 70, you dont really know. As long as it moves around with RPM and doesnt fall to the red, you're fine.

 

Install a real oil pressure gauge if you're worried.

 

I agree with Magnethead. Mine reads in the same range at idle too.

 

Yep, normal operation. You might get a little better reading if you replace the oil pressure sending unit, but it is probably not really mandatory. At 700 RPM it is normal to have the gauge just above the low side hash mark. I replaced my own sending unit a few months ago and it appears to be reading much more accurately now and a little higher on a hot idle. If I remember it right the part and a special sending unit removal socket only cost me about $35.00 for both at Napa.

Jimmy

 

Well thanks to much to everybody for the replays, it really take me off a big preoccupation, i was a little worried about it!! Thanks Again!!

 

Yep He remembers correctly. An ordinary socket won't fit.
Now depending on your engine....Mine is a 3.9L and I just can't seem
to find it! Pass side rear of engine they say eh? ................................
AHA! ............it's next to the Distributor! .......Danged Cataracts!!

Never mind.........
"Emily Litella" ( [Laugh In] aka Gilda Radner, 1968)

 

Maybe preventing you from seeing that this is an 11 YO thread?

 

Could be! .....