LC925
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Oil pressure sensor!
So nearly 2 months ago I purchased a 22 hour boat with a Stage 3 Whipple upgrade. While on the test drive I noticed the actual dash gauge wasn’t reading and the seller told me it was the second one that goes out since he did the upgrade. However, the digital monitor (in the speedo or tach gauge) displays the pressure just fine. I said ahh no biggie, I still have a digital reading, I just have to shuffle through the modes to see the pressure as a back up. Scheduled a service with Shockwave after buying it and dropped it off last week. All the routine maintenance, check the oil pressure sensor, add a Aqua swim step, and a few touch ups.
Fast forward to today when I went to pick it up. They replaced the sensor and everything else on the list. Ok cool. Then it was mentioned that it will likely continue to go out! Apparently they encounter this on ALL Whippled 600’s?!? Anyone running into this as well?
Then I started thinking, is the sensor really bad if it’s still reading digitally? Maybe there’s something else causing the malfunction on the analog gauge? Lastly, now I’m second guessing myself if oil pressure was one of the digital reads as well... shit I need to get on the water Since this is ready to roll!
Here is a pic circling the oil pressure gauge as well as the “digital gauge” I was referencing if it didn’t make sense as well as a pic of the boat.
So nearly 2 months ago I purchased a 22 hour boat with a Stage 3 Whipple upgrade. While on the test drive I noticed the actual dash gauge wasn’t reading and the seller told me it was the second one that goes out since he did the upgrade. However, the digital monitor (in the speedo or tach gauge) displays the pressure just fine. I said ahh no biggie, I still have a digital reading, I just have to shuffle through the modes to see the pressure as a back up. Scheduled a service with Shockwave after buying it and dropped it off last week. All the routine maintenance, check the oil pressure sensor, add a Aqua swim step, and a few touch ups.
Fast forward to today when I went to pick it up. They replaced the sensor and everything else on the list. Ok cool. Then it was mentioned that it will likely continue to go out! Apparently they encounter this on ALL Whippled 600’s?!? Anyone running into this as well?
Then I started thinking, is the sensor really bad if it’s still reading digitally? Maybe there’s something else causing the malfunction on the analog gauge? Lastly, now I’m second guessing myself if oil pressure was one of the digital reads as well... shit I need to get on the water Since this is ready to roll!
Here is a pic circling the oil pressure gauge as well as the “digital gauge” I was referencing if it didn’t make sense as well as a pic of the boat.