Sts oil pump wiring question please help

[oleshifty]

Not sure what pressure the oil runs at on these setups, but I would imagine you could use an old school carb fuel pressure gauge, they only go to 10psi or so, so you should be able to monitor 1psi if that's all the pump supplies. They make electronic or mechanical gauges.


Also, putting a LED in line with the power wire SHOULD show when the the pump is actually flowing. I believe if the pump fries, the power will stop passing thru the circuit (atleast that's how someone suggested wiring up the LED for the electronic water pump). I THINK you would wire the led from the ground side, so that when it stops working, power stops passing thru the ground.

[liftedboost]

would be nice to get some sort of a alert system just incase, right now my method is every once and a while at a stop lower the passenger window and listen lol. this sorta sucks lol

[oleshifty]

haha, that's how I double check my efans

[jetmech]

Just get a normally open 1psi hobbs pressure switch and tire your alarm or LED into it. Put the pressure switch on the inlet side of the pump so if a build up of oil pressure occurs, it will close that pressure switch and trigger your alarm, or LED. The way a scavenge pump is supposed to work with a rear mounted turbo is that the scavenge pump is supposed to always be pulling the oil from the turbo's oil drain - no pressure in that line, just vacuum. And I don't blame you for not wanting to talk to STS. Those guys are idiots and I can't stand them