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So as mentioned a few posts ago, I changed out my leaking oil sender to the detriment of my knuckles and a couple of wrenches. The older sender worked, apparently, but I have an oil leak and knew that at least some of the seepage was from the sender. This all happened wednesday. I drove the car around that night and everything seemed fine. I have an electrical gauge installed via an oil filter doughnut-like insert and though I've had to replace that gauge once already, I felt it was working to a degree. (BTW, it is one of the glowshift set ups and it is not that great, sadly). Left for South Carolina yesterday. About and hour into the trip I had to go through a few small towns with lights. Once down to idle my oil light comes on, flickering. The extra gauge was installed as a precaution after rebuilding the engine, more for peace of mind than anything, because my pressure has been fine since rebuilding the engine. (the engine was in pieces when I bought the car...) I'm not crazy to suspect something off with the sender am I? First, it wasn't the same size as the one that was on the engine (bought at Eeuroparts) and this has never happened in the last 10000 miles since the rebuild.
I didn't feel like I could honestly trust the glowshift gauge either so I stopped and checked things at a garage with a manual gauge. 22psi at idle and up past 55 at 3000rpms. THis was taken at the filter adapter but still seems perfectly normal to me, but of course the oil light didn't come one while idling in the parking lot for 15 mins or so. (can anything be repeated in front of a mechanic?)
With those numbers I chose to continue my trip. It has me sweating bullets everytime we have to slow down and I'm hoping my risk doesn't prove to be a disaster. It is just too coincidental, wouldn't you say? All is well, then install sender, then light starts to come on? The car sounds fine, with no typical oil-starved engine noise.
Maybe someone out there has a similar story?
posted by 24.168.198...
, Fri, 6 Aug 2010 07:07:23
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