2020 Gladiator, Oil pressure sensor or oil pump?

[ShadowsPapa]

Not sure if I'm going to do the oil pump yet.

So simply throw parts at it without checking first as to what the real problem is?

You do realize this is a chain driven oil pump, driven by the crankshaft and sits at the front of the engine - right?

Yes the oil pressure sensor is a decent first step -

I'm not sure about our engines, but on most engines the oil pressure sending unit isn't hard to replace. I'd start there; it's the quickest, easiest, and cheapest thing to do. When they go bad they'll be full of oil.

And his showed signs that it was more of a sensing issue, as fast as it dropped and came back. Maybe even just a connection issue. How a gauge responds can be just as important in troubleshooting as the numbers it goes to. Oil pressure on these tends to drop slowly when it drops - change your cluster display to show the oil pressure right in front of your face, then cross over the 3,000 RPM range and back down again - it doesn't "jump" instantly, it rises and falls, like pressure would in a normal hydraulic system. His jumped from here to there.

I have to admit I have not been using OEM filters and cannot remember what I have been using in the past.

As long as it's a good filter - doesn't matter if it's OEM or not. Just needs to be something of quality and not cheap junk often sold on Amazon.

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