Hello fellows:
Here is my scenario; I have a 1995 camaro with the 3.4L in it. I've had it for almost two years now and it always had excellent oil pressure ( 60-70 almost all the time ). It never got lower than 55 or so at anytime. well, I was about an hour and a half into a 6 hour round trip yesterday when I was on the interstate and all of a sudden the oil pressure guage went completely nuts and the check engine light comes on, but the check engine light comes on almost all the time, probably just O2 sensors there. I stopped and checked the car out and it was totally fine. Not short on oil ( bout a 2 week old oil change with Castrol 10-40 ) and no pinging or knocking at all. So I continued the trip and stil had no motor problems or sounds the whole time, but for the most part the guage would stay around 40lbs. at interstate speed and drop to 20-30 at stops. Every now and then the guage would go crazy again but would eventually return to half or so but never at any point drop to zero or near. Now i would think that if i have a weak pump or something that the guage would drop or go nuts to zero or near and not maxed out past 80 !...Anyone have this problem before ?.....If not, what do you guys think; Bad guage, bad sending unit, weak pump ?....it just really bothers me now cause like i said, the whole 2 years that i have owned it people were amazed at the oil pressure that it always carried !
Wel any response would be greatly appeciated !..thanks in advance guys !!
Ron
Here is my scenario; I have a 1995 camaro with the 3.4L in it. I've had it for almost two years now and it always had excellent oil pressure ( 60-70 almost all the time ). It never got lower than 55 or so at anytime. well, I was about an hour and a half into a 6 hour round trip yesterday when I was on the interstate and all of a sudden the oil pressure guage went completely nuts and the check engine light comes on, but the check engine light comes on almost all the time, probably just O2 sensors there. I stopped and checked the car out and it was totally fine. Not short on oil ( bout a 2 week old oil change with Castrol 10-40 ) and no pinging or knocking at all. So I continued the trip and stil had no motor problems or sounds the whole time, but for the most part the guage would stay around 40lbs. at interstate speed and drop to 20-30 at stops. Every now and then the guage would go crazy again but would eventually return to half or so but never at any point drop to zero or near. Now i would think that if i have a weak pump or something that the guage would drop or go nuts to zero or near and not maxed out past 80 !...Anyone have this problem before ?.....If not, what do you guys think; Bad guage, bad sending unit, weak pump ?....it just really bothers me now cause like i said, the whole 2 years that i have owned it people were amazed at the oil pressure that it always carried !
Wel any response would be greatly appeciated !..thanks in advance guys !!
Ron
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