Odd surging issue now coolant in the oil

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Sun,

Thank you for so much help and info....Good News the old girl runs again... Finally got her all buttoned up and running.
 
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Well Sun. Oil Pressure is good. 55 PSI cold, 40 PSI Warm with throttle, 20 PSI @ 600rpm at idle warm. This was checked with a mechanical gauge. I pulled out the mechanical gauge because i took the Tahoe on a 30-45 min trip and the gauge in the cluster dropped to below zero while idling at a stop light. You want to talk about getting that crazy eyed look of oh crap. Never tripped the check gauge light or heard sounds of knocking. Yes it has full oil and nothing is mixing. Yes I immediately pulled into the auto parts store right there at the stop light and grabbed a mechanical gauge.

Bad news is that my fuel gauge is on crack or something. And my oil pressure gauge in the dash is totally off about 10-15 psi. But I am thinking with the fuel gauge doing its own thing and spinning in circles at times it has readjusted the oil pressure needle to read less.

Any thoughts on the fuel gauge being a spazz. If you want I'll grab you a video.
 
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Guys is this where the oil pressure gauge is suppose to zero out when the key is on the on position and the motor is off?

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I'll get a video in the morning. It is deciding to behave properly tonight after I got home. It seems to spin like a pin wheel in circles then stop for a split second then start spinning again .

I swapped the oil pressure sensor out for a new one also just to make sure.

We'll I guess this weekend is going to be a dig thru wiring weekend. Do you have a color coded wiring diagram by chance?

Also any adverse affects of ditching the oil sending unit for a peer machanical gauge?
 

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