oil pressure guage pegged to right

[sbxj]

when I shut off it returns to the left. Do I have a bad sender? Where is it?
'01 sport
Thanks

 

[jldiaz]

Probably. It's on the passenger side of the engine, close to the oil filter.
Otherwise, you may have a bad wire or connector.

 

[KingA]

Sounds like the sender wire to me. Mine did that after I changed the oil once - scared the crap out of me. Turns out I just loosened the wire coming out of the sender. Look for the sender just behind the oil filter and make sure there is a wire coming out of it and that it didn't get disconnected.

 

[RichP]

Second that on the wire, had the plug fall off my trooper at 70mph, left brown spots on the seat, I shut it off and coasted to the shoulder, popped the hood and did a check, instant relief when I saw that plug hanging loose there. Tense 2 minutes for sure... then 10 minutes later the #1 plug blew out of the head, that was the LAST time I EVER let a dealer under the hood....all the plugs were loose.

 

[steve-o]

Do a search. There was a post about aweek ago on how to diagnose the problem to see if it the wire/gauge or the sender unit. Really good write up. Solved my problem.

 

[Yucca-Man]

Could be as simple as a bad connection off the sender or the sender wire. If you used plumbers tape on the threads of the sender it will do that, or a disconnected sender wire will do the same.

 

[HoratioTheJeep]

Here's the most recent thread on this subject: http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47820

The write-up on how to diagnose & fix is in the second post. HTH

 

[sbxj]

thanks to all...I read on the "car talk" forum that you can reset your gauges on the newer XJ's by holding the trip computer while starting...holy crap!! was I surprised when the needle went back to it's rightful position. pass it on