Oil Pressure Quirk in 90Q20V

[Andrew Duane USG]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Sperry, Peter  A -Syntegra US say:

> Started my wife's 90 to warm it up.  Went out to start driving and it had
> developed a "tick."  Quite a loud ticking (maybe a bad lifter?) and also,
> the oil pressure guage had moved up to about 3 Bar, and then when I put it
> in gear and drove it moved to 5 Bar.  So only when it is under load does the
> pressure move up, but 3 sounds a little high for idle, correct?

That all sounds perfectly normal to me, after living with a 90Q20V
for 5 years.....

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