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Weird Renix issue - turning wheel caausing oil light to flicker?

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Old Sep 16, 2014 | 02:52 PM
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Default Weird Renix issue - turning wheel caausing oil light to flicker?

Not that I'm too concerned about this at all, but as the title says - seeing a weird issue with my 89 renix 4.0 that I found kinda funny.

Haven't had any oil light (pressure) flickers for a long time, and it only happens when done with my commute and pulling into a parking spot, I started noticing it flicker for a second. So then I realized that when it happens, and parking (in drive) if I pull the steering wheel to one side or another - it makes my oil light flicker....kinda weird...

Just wondering if there's any reason behind this - correlation between power steering and oil pressure, etc? Seems odd to me. Again - doesn't happen while driving, even with stop-and-go traffic.
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Old Sep 17, 2014 | 08:29 AM
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Try doing Post 18 in my Tips.
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Old Sep 17, 2014 | 09:35 AM
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Will be doing tonight, thanks - had only done the engine chassis grounds yet.

I'm thinking I definitely need to do this, because my wipers also started randomly stalling during operation, though I just did the motor a month or two ago after the original totally died, and the delay module never worked so I just deleted it. So this would make sense that this is the issue.

Gotta do rear brakes here soon too, though I suppose I need to start another thread for that. Gonna take off the drums and take a look see. It's been making a bit of a rotational "rubbing" (very very light rubbing/grinding noise), but only during slow decceleration/light braking (hard braking stops the noise) - I just had the diff cover off and the gears looked perfectly fine, not a speck of metal. Redid the fluid. Doubt it's the diff, most likely brake shoes, the rear's gotta get changed out here pretty soon.

Everything's been runnin pretty good man. Gonna hit up programbo this friday about injectors, I think he has some aside for me, if not I'll just wait - but looking to do those asap as well.
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Old Sep 17, 2014 | 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Stabsthedrama
Will be doing tonight, thanks - had only done the engine chassis grounds yet.

I'm thinking I definitely need to do this, because my wipers also started randomly stalling during operation, though I just did the motor a month or two ago after the original totally died, and the delay module never worked so I just deleted it. So this would make sense that this is the issue.

Gotta do rear brakes here soon too, though I suppose I need to start another thread for that. Gonna take off the drums and take a look see. It's been making a bit of a rotational "rubbing" (very very light rubbing/grinding noise), but only during slow decceleration/light braking (hard braking stops the noise) - I just had the diff cover off and the gears looked perfectly fine, not a speck of metal. Redid the fluid. Doubt it's the diff, most likely brake shoes, the rear's gotta get changed out here pretty soon.

Everything's been runnin pretty good man. Gonna hit up programbo this friday about injectors, I think he has some aside for me, if not I'll just wait - but looking to do those asap as well.
Excellent plan. I know you'll keep us in the loop.
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