my oil pressure gauge goes up everytime i accelerate.

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Asked by al5877 Sep 01, 2015 at 11:22 PM about the 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe Z71 4WD

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al5877 answered 9 years ago

my oil pressure gauge keeps going up everytime i accelerate

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Sterling answered 9 years ago

this is normal what grade oil do you have in the car. it sounds like the oil pressure coming out of the oil pump is low and when you speed the pump up the pressure builds. if you are running a 5w30 take it out and put a 10w30 in it. if you are running 10w30 throw a bottle of lucas in there just to build vascosity.

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Sterling answered 9 years ago

what happens is when the truck warms up the 5w30 becomes more like water and the vascasoity goes to hell

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Andrew answered 9 years ago

This is what a car does. Don't go wasting money unless it drops into the red zone at idle

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Jason answered 9 years ago

it should hit 62 psi.. and 32 at idle

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