Wierd oil problem

[smithma7 at yahoo.com (Mike Smith)]

When I first start it, no light.  Once I start moving, it comes on about 30 seconds into the drive and stays on until I turn engine off.  At times when I stall (CIS shizz) in traffic, I restart and have same results.  Nothing until I start moving and then 30 seconds into it: blink blink blink.  It shouldn't be low on oil.  As I don't wish to rebuild it again, I've been fairly religious in checking and changing the oil.  And as I drive 500 miles/week for work, I've been changing it about once a month.  In fact, just ordered 20 drain plug washers a couple of weeks ago.  Can't remember the last time I changed the old washer, but it was getting bent out of shape.
 
Mike

John Lagnese <jlagnese@massed.net> wrote:
The sensors are cheaper to check. Does the light stay on at all rpms?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Smith" 
To: "ATS - Patrick Bureau" 
Cc: "car" 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:59 AM
Subject: RE: Wierd oil problem


> Well, after reading this, let me throw this out there: My oil light
blinks constantly. It's supposed to blink when oil is low, right? (I don't
really know :) I always figured I had a bad sensor somewhere and the car
just thought it was always low on oil. Now, you're saying that it probably
means a bad oil pump? I'm pretty sure this is an item that was replaced
when my engine was rebuilt as they had issues with finding metal in the oil.
>
> Lost, Mike
>
> ATS - Patrick Bureau wrote:
> Last time I had an intermitent oil light issue I was running 10w40 and
> someone suggested I used 20w50, and when I switched the oil light stayed
one
> permanently, so I changed my oil pump. solved the problem...then again it
> had over 150K miles on it.
>
> maybe it's time to simply change the oil pump.?
>
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> =>-----Original Message-----
> =>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> =>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of L F
> =>Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 6:51 PM
> =>To: Cmr446@cs.com; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> =>Subject: Re: Wierd oil problem
> =>
> =>
> =>Try going with 20w-50 full syn.
> =>
> =>I've read that >30 points difference between the first number and
> =>the second is NOT a good idea.
> =>
> =>Larry
> => ----- Original Message -----
> => From: Cmr446@cs.com
> => To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> => Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:28 AM
> => Subject: Re: Wierd oil problem
> =>
> =>
> => txrocco@sbcglobal.net writes:
> => >
> => > you using 20w50 ?
> => >
> =>
> => Nope, 5w50 full synth.
> =>
> => robw_z@yahoo.com writes:
> => > What is tipping you off to that it isn't picking up oil?
> =>When the engine
> => > turns, assuming all is well with the intermediate shaft and
> =>gears, the oil
> => > pump has no choice but to turn also. It could be a screwed
> =>up pressure-relief
> => > valve but that would be odd since your pump is new.
> => >
> => > -Rob
> =>
> => Ah, forgot to mention that the oil light stays on after the
> =>engine is
> => running, hydro lifters clattering. It does this only after the
> =>car has sat for at
> => least 12 hours. Just about anything less and the light goes
> =>out as soon as
> => the motor kicks in, everything sounds normal.
> => About the only thing I can think of off hand is maybe the
> =>backflow or
> => check valve in the filter is weak, allowing the oil to seep
> =>back into the pan.
> =>
> => Carl
> => 77rocco
> => 03vue
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