Ford Hates Oil Pressure Gauges

Back when Ford was making the jelly-bean shaped pickups, they wired a pressure switch signal to the pressure gauge (instead of a real pressure signal).  This had the effect of moving the needle on the oil pressure gauge to one point and never moving.  So you had a gauge that acted like a light; it was either on or off.  The reason for this (as I understand it) is that customers were complaining about low oil pressure.  (Many of the complaints were surely from idiots)  So today I noticed that the wide selection of digital gauges available on the Ford Mustang is missing the oil pressure.  You can read cylinder head temperature, air/fuel ratio, transmission temperature, intake air temperature, but not the very important oil pressure!

Ford hates oil pressure gauges

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2 Responses to Ford Hates Oil Pressure Gauges

  1. Bo says:

    What year is a “Jelly Bean” F150

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