OM 352 oil pressure

[nessie]

Hi what is the oil pressure reading for a idiling warm engine and when driving in top gear in our 911.
pressure gauge goes upto 5 bar

cheers
dave

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[egge-fn]

Hi Dave,

5Bar is ok, when driving. With warm oil, not driving, with 700RPM it should have 2-3Bar


Markus

[nessie]

Thanks for the reply just had a new oil pump put in and are only getting 1 bar when idiling is this ok,
old oil pump had the oil coming out of the worm gear at the top.
cheers
dave