Oil Meter on dash??

**APX** · 10-10-2008, 10:53 AM

The oil meter on my 2004 Chevy Silverado (the one small one on the dash in the cluster of the other 4 right of the speedometer) looks like it is "stuck". The meter ends at the reading of "80" - and this is where the needle is even when the truck is off. When I turn the truck on the needle moves to about the 3'o clock position (obviously way off the scale) Now, my oil was just done and the computer says I have 95% oil life left... if this means anything. Is this broke? And if so, how can I fix it?

**APX** · 10-10-2008, 11:42 AM

My bad, I guess this is the "oil pressure meter".... anyways it's reading waaaay off the scale. I think it's just stuck or something, I don't know. It looks like it got re-centered at 80 instead of 40 or something....

**04sierracrewcab** · 10-10-2008, 12:44 PM

have the gauges been tamperd with or aftermarket gauges instaled

and the oil life monitor is not worth a darn.. you can simply reset it and it will return to 100 and then start the "countdown" again

**APX** · 10-10-2008, 01:51 PM

Nope, nothing aftermarket added or messed with near the gauges....

**APX** · 10-10-2008, 08:06 PM

OK, here is a picture I took... obviously the oil pressure isn't this high, so something is f'd up....

It was fine yesterday, just did this today when I started the truck up to go to work in the morning....

**APX** · 10-10-2008, 08:22 PM

Fake Edit:

When the truck is off, the needle stays at the 80 mark....

**aquaholic** · 10-10-2008, 08:51 PM

the oil pressure sensors that gm were using are junk. my guess would be that when yours went, it burried the guage and broke it. i would suspect that even with a bad sensor, the guage should still go to 0 with the truck turned off. i'de start with replacing the oil pressure sending unit which isn't that expensive. then if the guage is still burried i'de replace the guage. you should be able to find one in a junkyard. gm has been using those same guages for a long time.

**APX** · 10-11-2008, 01:09 AM

I got a little fed up and eventually just just removed the fuse for the instrument/digital trip meter cluster and then put it back in - Problem Solved!!

Not sure what caused that to happen in the first place....

**dwill3015** · 10-11-2008, 09:28 AM

Wow, that is strange that that is all it took was pulling the fuse. I guess you know it was the guage then. It makes a good point to check that out for future members with the same prob.