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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 03:41 PM
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Hey, whenever i drive my oil pressure is all over the place, it drops to like zero sometimes and goes up to like 45 again and stuff. I was just wondering what might be causing it or if its ok to drive..
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 04:09 PM
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Check to see if the wire connection to the sending unit is coming loose.
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Old Jun 13, 2009 | 11:30 PM
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Thats usually the sending unit going bad.
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Old Jun 14, 2009 | 09:48 AM
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I had bad ground at sending unit clean threads and check ground at firewall.
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Old Jun 15, 2009 | 01:34 AM
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This also happened to me back then and I discovered that the oil pressure sending unit have caused the problem...
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