Thread: Oil Pressure
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Old 06-30-2017, 04:50 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by drz400dude View Post
What should our oil pressure be? I have a 13 fr-s. I'm reading from a sandwich plate on the oil filter housing. At idle it drops down to around 15PSI. Is it lower at this location compared to where it's actually running through the engine?
Some say that the average engines oil pressure should be about 10 psi for every 1,000 rpms.

So, if your engine is running at about 15 psi and the idle is about 1,000 to 1,500 rpms ....... you're good to go.


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