Re: Oil Pressure loss?

[cobram@Channel1.Com (COBRAM)]

 -=> Quoting Waratap <=-


 Wa> When I first start the car in the day or after it has been sitting a
 Wa> while (1 hr) and I start her up (without fuss), the oild pressure guage
 Wa> reads between 4 and 5+, even at 2k.  Oil is 10-30 Mobil One and has
 Wa> been for years (except Castrol Syntec once). Oil regularly changed
 Wa> (even more so with that go@#$%%rn leak).

     You should be using 10W-40 in the winter and 20W-50
     in the summer.

     First thing you have to do is remove the oil pressure
     sending unit and put an oil pressure gauge on it,
     pronto.  If readings are normal, breath a sigh of
     relief and change the offending indicator component.

     If not, try running some 20W-50 to see if you get an
     improvement in earl pressure.

     The oil pressure sending unit is right next to the
     oil filter, the oil pressure sender is the big one,
     two wires (if I recall correctly), that screws in
     vertically, easy to remove with a long faucet wrench. 
     The other single wire one is the oil pressure switch,
     that's smaller and is mounted horizontally. The smallest
     one in the area is the oil temperature sensor.  The
     part they all attach to is like a big thermostat
     gooseneck, only it holds the oil cooler thermostat and
     feeds the oil cooler.

     Never changed the oil pump, but it didn't look very difficult
     when I had the inspection pan off.  The one V8Q that
     I've heard about having oil pressure problems was
     caused by a piece of the "honeycomb" baffles clogging
     the oil pump screen filter.

     Let us know what happens.

     BCNU,



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