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daveo
Dodge Dakota
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1/22/2003
12:34:48
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 Subject: low oil pressure?
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My oil gauge is staying on or near the L mark. This morning while cold, it was so low that my oil light came on. My oil is freshly changed and was full.
Has anyone had this problem? I'm not sure if it's a sending unit or the oil pump has had it.
Thank in advance.
Daveo.
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Chip B.
Dodge Dakota
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1/22/2003
12:47:44
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Normally when oil is cold, the pressure is higher. I've had a sending unit and receiving unit(behind the dash) stop communicating properly on an old Ford I owned and the symptom was simular to what your discribing. I bought an Auto Meter pnuematic gauge and felt better about the reading I got. Never trust electricity. Any thing you can't see that is that powerful is pure VooDoo!
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daveo
Dodge Dakota
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1/22/2003
14:33:46
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Chip B.
thanks for the reply. You're right about electricity, never mess with something can can kill you without warning!
I'm having the pressure checked tomorrow just in case.
daveo
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VR Sam Bass
Dodge Dakota
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2/18/2003
08:52:41
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Just got a 90 SE w/3,9L. 108k miles. Low oil pressure and light at idle. Increase RPM and
pressure comes to the "L". Driving RPM, turn
corner and the Pressure coes to "zip". Is there
a history of the Pick-up Tube comming off?
Sam
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VR Sam Bass
Dodge Dakota
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2/21/2003
19:38:58
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Never mind!, Changed the oil and filter, found the filter to be pretty heavy. Noticed immediate
increase in pressure to the bottom of the arc.
Changed the Press. sending unit. BINGO pressure
back to the normal range. Had no idea that the
orafice (hole in tube) was so tiny. Seems that a
grain of sand could slow or stop the flow.
Thanks anyway, Sam
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