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Andy
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11/09/2005
07:41:39
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 Subject: 2001 Dakota losing oil pressure
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Hope some of you Dakota guys can help me. I just bought a '02 4.7L Dakota. Driving it home the other night after a jaunt of hard acceleration, the "Check Gauge" light came on, I noticed I had no oil pressure. I pulled over right away, had plenty of oil, no strange sounds, ran fine. Started it back up, drove 3-4 miles on home, fine, light stayed off. Drove approx. 40 miles yesterday and this morning, ran fine again, then, all of a sudden, again after hard accel the same thing, no oil pressure on gauge, light coming on. This time, it started pecking for 20-30 seconds until I could get it pulled over. Rechecked oil, again, plenty of oil. Started the truck, no pecking, ran fine, drove the remainder of the 4 miles home, it came on 3 more times, no pecking this time, just no reading, would turn off the engine, if would read fine for a minute or so, then drop out again, but never pecked again, just the once. Anyone have any idea? Sending unit, oil pump bad? Etc?
Took it to the local Dodge dealer two days ago. Drove it around and said the can't find anything wrong, possible bad sending unit. I told them I knew something was wrong, more than sending unit probably beause it started pecking. Said they'd keep it longer and try to "duplicate it" so they'd know what to fix! Oh well, I guess as long as the computer says it's working right, don't try to diagnose and treat by symptoms alone.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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11/10/2005
09:51:36
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just bumping the crap off the first page.
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11/11/2005
08:36:23
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Have you changed the oil and filter yet ??
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Dan M
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11/11/2005
10:15:59
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The oil and check engine light are probably synanomous.
what kind of oil do you use? Dino or synthetic? How many miles since last check?
Could be clogged filter / crude broken lose and floating around.
- Dan M
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Andy
Dodge Dakota
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11/11/2005
10:44:26
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Well, I changed the oil yesterday. I put Castrol 5W-30 in it, with Napa Nascar filter, cuppose to be better than their Napa Gold line the guy says. Changed the filter, too. It's not dropped since last Saturday. It's been maybe 200 miles since then between me and the dealer and no problems yet.
The dealer kept it from Monday morning to Wednesday afternoon. Said they were unable to validate the problem/complaint. They never actually touched anything, just drove it around, didn't drop pressure, said it was alright. Didn't even change the oil to see if the filter was good. Service manager made the comment, wanting to know if he was just suppose to start swapping parts until it was fixed. Well, lets see, oil pump, sludge or blockage in the system, that's about all it can be I'd think. Heaven forbid they swap out the oil pump and it not be fixed. Nowadays, the consumer is stupid until proven wrong only by their computer and nothing else. Computer says it's fine, then it's fine. Don't treat the symptoms until it's fixed, right?
Funny thing was, the climate control is screwed up. It sometimes won't blow on your feet. I turn the gauge, the little motor runs under the dash, but the air flow door evidently doesn't move. I tell them exactly that. He says, we'll swap the control head and see if that fixes it. I told him the control head was fine, it was making contact and the motor was doing something, airflow was just not changing. He swapped head unit anyway. Guess what, didn't fix it. Put my old control head back in, said it would be $5-600 to fix it, it was something under the dash, and my service contract wouldn't cover it. I get home, leave after dark, all the lights but one are burned out on my old control head. All the bulbs were blown. Well, yesterday they were putting a new control head on it. All that after I tell them the control head was fine. But they can't just "swap out an oil pump without knowing if it's bad or not".
Thanks for all the help, keep it coming.
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