Oil pressure gauge reading with engine off...

[chrisbruck]

Could someone go tell me what their oil pressure gauge actually reads when the engine is OFF and the key is in the SECOND position before starting?

Mine is between 1 and 2 BAR which I would expect it to set itself to 0.

I'm trying to troubleshoot a recently occurring high oil pressure reading. Basically it pegs to 5 at anything above 2k RPM. Just started happening in the past few days.

[djcdmv]

Question On Oil Pressure Sender

Try this thread.... I think post 14 has the test you can try to pinpoint the problem. Likely a sender problem. Mine used to go up to 4 and stay when the ignition was turned to on. New sender solved my problem. Now it just leaks a bit

[woland]

Confirm pressure sender fault

[chrisbruck]

So how exactly does one test the sender? And how do I get the darn connector off to clean it? It doesn't have the nut like the above pic.