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  1. Member zrau17's Avatar
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    03-15-2012 12:00 AM #1
    Went out to a local meet tonight, driving home my low oil pressure light came on. I pulled over right away and came to a stop, right before I went to turn the key back and shut the car off it went away. let it idle for a minute or two...no light. Pulled away, got up to speed (about 45) and it came back on. Whipped into a Wawa to check it out. Oil level is fine, no weird noises, car still felt okay and drove great all day. Sat for a few minutes there, got driving home and took it super easy, flicked on once and flashed a few times before going off again, then drove home normally and it didn't come on again.

    Reasons? I have no oil level sensor, and the oil level looked perfect. I will admit that a bit beforehand I did good pull down the road but it was like...enough before the light came on that I figured why would it come on that far after.

    It's making me want to do my oil pump just because, but I'd rather not spend the money if I don't have to. Could it have just been from running it pretty hard? It never did it before though and I've romped on it hard before. It's been running great so I mean I'm obviously going to drive the car the way it was built to be driven.

    Any insight is helpful
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    03-15-2012 01:39 AM #2
    You need to hook up a direct pressure reading gauge before driving that car again, even if just to be certain.

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