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Hello all,
another newbie question: on my '90 SPG, I replaced the oil pressure switch last Saturday, after noticing that the light never came on, and troubleshooting to determine that it must be the switch.
Didn't have the gargantuan socket, so my neighbor helped. Put in a new switch from Autozone. My neighbor screwed it in and it seemed nice and tight.
Driving that evening, I got loud tapping noise from engine. I eventually checked the oil and --none on the dipstick. Filled it up and tried to figure out where it was dripping from but not much luck (night time and I'm not the best at these things).
Drove around a few times and it seemed to be leaking when the engine was running--there'd be a little squirt of oil onto the cardboard under the car every 5-10 seconds. Overnight it would leak a little onto the ground but not too much. Yesterday tried some "rear main seal stop-leak" from Barsleak, then drove around to a few different stores, etc, and parked, this morning was down about 1-1.5 quarts. Filled up and drove 40 miles to work; stopped after 10 miles and didn't seem too far down. Got to work, let her sit for an hour, then checked--no oil on dipstick. Put in about 2 quarts and now she reads at the "Min" line
SO...checked on here and--could it be that my pressure switch is leaking? The engine-side of the filter seems like it has a light coating of very clean oil on it...but the switch seemed tight when we put it in? But apparently I should've put some Teflon tape on it?
When all this started I assumed it was because I'd overtightened the alternator belt, which I think I had, but that was two days before the new oil pressure switch, which was the day on which the leaking began.
If it's the oil pressure switch, that'd be awesome because it seems like such a simple fix. But ..it seemed tight? I don't understand...
As always, thank you for helping the ignorant new guy
..Sky
posted by 74.63.93...
, Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:38:27, Wed, 3 Feb 2010 19:16:53
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