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Project 300zx [13] - Oil Pressure Sender

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Oil is good. Like, in salads and stuff. It's also good for moving parts, metal parts. Such as an engine. Oil pressure is good. It makes sure lubrication gets to all the places where it's needed, and keeps rotating pieces from touching stationary pieces. Good. Consequently, knowing your oil pressure is good. Some cars have oil pressure gauges, others just have a warning light, some others don't have any specialized instrument because nowadays most cars have screens and computers for everything. But they all monitor this vital metric: oil pressure. Not necessarily the level, but always the pressure. And rightly so. You might have the perfect amount of oil but a bad oil pump, or a clogged oilway, or a bearing with too much wear. All of these things and many more affect the pressure and if the pressure is not right, damage will be inflicted to the engine, one way or another. And why am I rambling about oil and how hard the damn thing is pushed to circulate the engine? W