| Re: OIL PRESSURE PROBLEM? |
Subject: Re: OIL PRESSURE PROBLEM? by milsurpman on 2013/4/14 20:07:59 Something else to watch out for. I had this happen to me when I picked up my vette many moons ago. The vette shop I purchased my vette from in florida did a complememtary oil change before they shipped it to me in tx. Probally used a lowball shop. When I received the car it had the same problem as yours hot. I was thinking maybe a lower end tear down or oil pump was in my future on a 29000mile engine even though it was ok on initial inspection but did not know what weight oil was in the engine initially :'( . It turns out the no name generic fram type quality pf25 shorty oil filter was causing a large oil volume restriction without it bypassing. Problem was solved when I installed a good quality oil filter. Its oil pressure is Still good 12 years later. Yours may not be this easy of a fix. I was fortunate So just putting it out their as you never know. Ps If your l98 still has the silver body oil pressure sending unit they are very flaky. I believe there was a service bulliten on replacing them with the revised black body sender. I will have to dig in my sb book later as this is from memory. |
