Oil Pressure Quirk in 90Q20V

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>> 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.....

3 bar at idle on an old 20V sounds like a clogged oil filter.

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