Cold weather start and oil pressure

Cold weather start and oil pressure

01-30-2004, 08:45 AM

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SpicyJam

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Cold weather start and oil pressure

How long is too long to wait for oil pressure? For 2 days now it has been -20+ outside in the morning. Truck plugged in starts fine, but I have noticed the oil pressure gauge takes its sweet time to move. More like 20 to 25 seconds. I don't really think I am hurting anything, but seems like a long time and sometimes just when I want to shut it down the gauge moves up. When the temp is 0 or above things work great, just looking for some input on this or is there something here to worry about?

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