Miata Mailing List: March 1998, Message #259

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jartz@telerama.lm.com wrote:
> 
> I was able to drive a '99 on Saturday, in Jamestown NY.  It looked to me
> like the oil pressure gauge worked, but I thought I had read something here
> that it was a "fake," maybe in the models 199? and later.
> 
> Could someone please enlighten me?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> John Artz
> Pittsburgh

I thinks that the reference to a "Fake" Oil pressure guage refers to the
electric sending unit that just has L-H on the guage. Unlike the "Real"
guage that actually has a direct pressure fed line from the enigine. An
example would be that the fake guage will not move much under
accelaration however, the manual "real" guage will. The real guage also
actuall shows lbs/in such as 30, 40, 60 and the guage will move between
all these numbers. I hope I explained the correctly. I think I over
cooked the issue.

Cheers,
Dan Garcia
95 White/tan
Team "fake oil guage"