Re: Oil pressure problems, maybe.

Posted by Bob E. On 2016/9/5 13:22:34

That could be. Thee existing sender wasnt working when I got the car so I replaced it with the NAPA sensor and it worked fine for a while Since the sensor is only a few months old I suspected the oil pump itself or associated sludge.

I just pulled the engine and removed the oil pan. Before I did that I flushed the engine with a 50:50 mixture of oil and diesel (As per Jack Vines suggestion) so that may have cleaned up the inside of the engine a lot.

The pan and the oil pump were clean with very little sludge on the bottom of the pan and none on the oil pump inlet screen.

Where did you move the new oil pressure sensor to? Is there another sensor that would work better than the 'small hole' NAPA one?

Also, I don't understand your statement "The packard must work the the gas sending unit" ?????

thanks for replying.