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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 08:11 PM
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well iv got a 1998 camaro ls1 m6 car. the car has a cam and a few other bolt ons. i took the car out for a drive tonight and i noticed the oil pressure was around 20 psi at idle and jumping a little bit. the car normaly runs around 40 at idle so can any one tell me was wrong. im guessing oil pump failure
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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 08:25 PM
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Being that it is a 98 it is and it just started out of nowhere that is entirely possible... Check with a manual gauge and go from there IMO..
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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 08:27 PM
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well iv got a 1998 camaro ls1 m6 car. the car has a cam and a few other bolt ons. i took the car out for a drive tonight and i noticed the oil pressure was around 20 psi at idle and jumping a little bit. the car normaly runs around 40 at idle so can any one tell me was wrong. im guessing oil pump failure
Did you check the oil level?
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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 08:53 PM
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yeah oild level seemed fine whats the best pump to buy when being on a budget and with no mods
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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 01:08 AM
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Check the oil pressure with a gauge. How many miles on it? 20 psi is acceptable and with in specs. If you have good pressure with a manual Gauge then change your oil switch.
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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 05:22 AM
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If you replace the pump I'll recomend a melling pump
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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 08:17 AM
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the car just hit 61k and whats the quickest way to put a gauge on it
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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 08:36 AM
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when i first bought my car it would idle at 35-40psi hot all the time, then one day it just dropped to 20psi, i immediately changed the oil and found a fram filter on there. i cut the filter open (as i always do on my oil changes) and found the paper POS filter to be collapsed and folded all up inside. got the car started back up with Mobile 1 (this was about 5-6 years ago when they were still good) and a new filter, and the psi was back up to 40psi hot idle
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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 04:35 PM
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see i fired up today and drove it to work and the oil pressure was fine and it never droped. now im pretty mind fucked but will do a oil change with a k&n filter
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