Low oil pressure warning

[judas]

Sat in a queue for a car park Saturday night and the temperature was creeping up and suddenly peaked at 120 At this point I started getting low oil pressure warnings - 1psi! Is this normal? Oil levels are ok, but I have just had the oil pressure sensor changed as it had a small oil leak through it.

[Bitter'n'twisted]

I had similar.
Had a small oil leak. Got it fixed.
Resulted in a slightly bigger oil leak. Got it fixed.
Oil pressure then seemed generally lower, 40psi max.
Then every time I used it it dropped slightly further.
Then the oil pressure lamp started flickering! (Oil level was fine).

Took it back to TMS and was just faulty guage. Now fixed and is fine.
Although I have never had the temperature exceed about 94 though!

[gr4eme]

I'm having a similar problem, the tuscan is drinking a lot of oil about 1ltr every 500 miles, its going in to HHC on wed morn to have a look 2nd time and for windscreen wiper to be fixed plus gear stick not going into reverse sounds a lot but i'm not to bothered, but when having a bit of fun round corners the oil pressure light does come on, pressure drops to 1-5psi then ok, checked oil, was ok prahaps a little on the low side, so i'm thinking a faulty or at least a dicky sensor. Will let you know what happens on wed aft

[T88CAN]

gr4eme said:

I'm having a similar problem, the tuscan is drinking a lot of oil about 1ltr every 500 miles, its going in to HHC on wed morn to have a look 2nd time

Sounds like stretched valves to me the oil seeps past the valve guides and burns try switching to a thicker oil in the mean time if confirmed its Blackpool holiday time i`m afraid

[andyvdg]

judas said:

Sat in a queue for a car park Saturday night and the temperature was creeping up and suddenly peaked at 120 At this point I started getting low oil pressure warnings - 1psi! Is this normal? Oil levels are ok, but I have just had the oil pressure sensor changed as it had a small oil leak through it.

Was it your water temp at 120 ? If so definitely not normal. Did your fans not kick in ?

[judas]

Well, sometimes they kick in ok at 92 and 94, sometimes they forget until the temperature gets much higher

[texet]

sometimes they forget!!!! stick to something milder. MAN!!!

>> Edited by texet on Tuesday 23 December 00:24

[BogBeast]

judas said:

Well, sometimes they kick in ok at 92 and 94, sometimes they forget until the temperature gets much higher

Sounds like you may have some air locks in the system..