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Old Oct 11, 2007 | 06:28 PM
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My oil pressure is at 35psi during idle and my valvetrain sure is getting noisey..could my oil pump be going out. Car has 89,000 miles. Still has stock ls6 pump.
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Old Oct 11, 2007 | 06:34 PM
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what kind of oil and filter?
oil will get thiner when its hot, but 35psi sounds fine
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Old Oct 11, 2007 | 07:11 PM
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castrol 0w30 k&n extended oil filter...model 2006
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Old Oct 11, 2007 | 07:38 PM
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what kind of temps do you have where you live?
how long have you had the parts installed?
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Old Oct 11, 2007 | 09:26 PM
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HOT! I live in texas and its around 90-95 everyday. Had them in for about 1000 miles.
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what kind of oil pressure did you used to have? Do you have any oil pressure fluctuation? Also, the cam and valvetrain parts are 1000 miles old?
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I'm here in Ohio and we had a real hot summer in the high 90's. My pressure was in the 35 ranges once driving for about 20 minutes or so.We had a sudden srop in temp here and its right around 40ps1 once fully warm,but were are in the 50's right now here.Could be that i did not drive it long enough as I did the last time,but 35psi sounds fine to me
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