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I like to go with the index finger, or the index and middle if I'm feeling good.

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On certain startups I used to get the oil dummy light on my volvos.. nature of the beast for me. It's when the light stays on is when you know you have problems (I remember when my mom blew the family wagon B230F from the light staying on - bad oil pump).

I love brake parts cleaner, use it for everything.. to clean my hands, to kill spiders, to punish my dog when she is bad. The kind with the small red caps that you get at autozone is the best.

-ryan

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Update..

Monday night I was ripping down the freeway and the oil light came back on. Coasted into a parking lot and fired it up again, and yes the light was stuck on again and 0 oil pressure. I thought well maybe it stuck again. So me and beau (as hmt friends watched) took the oil pan down in the middle of this parking lot @ 2am hahaha. So I pulled the plug cleaned it out again and fired it up, but this time the light was on for good. We towed it to the shop, where we could look at it closer, I saw metal flakes in the pan, but didnt look like bearing material. So I pulled all the bearings to make sure (rods/mains) all were fine, So I took the pump off, and found that both oil pump gears shatered and broke the case of the pump. Crazy, still unsure why it broke. So I cleaned everything out and swapped in a ITR pump. It's good to go now, so be advised if the oil light does come on it maybe worse than you think. I thought it was going to be something simple.

Jeff

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Technicaly the "LAST" motor you built wouldnt start :P





I had to...sorry ;)

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jebus Jeff.. you are always runnin into problems.

I got an oil pressure question for ya.

I got an aftermarket gauge. no leaks. but the gauge bounces around from 20ish to max. and everywhere in between.

The gauge is mounted on the bottom of the IM w/ a fuel line feeding it w/ oil. no leaks/kinks.

any clues?

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Manual oil pressure gauges move all around, I remember my first setup I had. I used an mech autometer gauge and when that thing was cold it would bounce all over the ------- place, it would max out all the time ??? very odd, it was just a stock a6 too. My guess its normal on hondas, lol.

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you sure it has a good ground

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Ground? sounds like a mechanical gauge to me.....

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with my experience with sbc cars with manual gauges, you don't really get that much movement (never ran an analog with an import).. but yes, all analog does like to be jumpy, even if it's a cable driver speedo

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it's an electrical oil psi gauge.

The gauge seems to read just fine right after an oil change. then slowly gets worse and worse.