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Title: Oil Pressure reading low?
Post by: samseye on January 15, 2006, 11:07:00 am

I have an 84 SWB with a straight 6  that I recently bought.
I noticed the Oil pressure gauge had no movement and replaced the sending unit yesterday.
I now notice some pressure reading a little less than half way between 0 and 30 marks on the guage, but it moves very little when I rev the engine.  Is that normal?  Seems to be low to begin with and I would expect it to move more when giving it gas?  The engine seems to run fine with no oil burinng and oil is not leaking anywhere.  Should I not worry about it or is there something more possibly going on?  
Thanks in advance for the help!

Title: Oil Pressure reading low?
Post by: Lt.Del on January 15, 2006, 08:24:00 pm

I would worry about it.  
I don't know how many miles are on your truck, but I would atleast drop the oil pan and look at the pickup screen of the pump.  Once you have the pan down, might as well spend $30 and get a new oil pump.  

They are easy to replace and it is worth it for the piece of mind.

SgtDel

Edited by: SgtDel at: 1/16/06 1:58 pm

Title: Re: Oil Pressure reading low?
Post by: samseye on January 17, 2006, 02:24:00 pm

Thanks for the advice.
It has very high miles, so I will drop the pan on the next oil change and do as advised.  I did not want something major going on that I could address now and prevent engine total failure.

Thanks,
David