bgood12
06-20-2010, 01:50 AM
Ok, my 8g is at about 140,000 miles and I have been recently getting the oil light. I had done a oil change in May (about a month ago maybe a month and a half) and I knew I should have oil. Like a bone head I just read on here and assumed that I had bad oil pressure sender. then I finally decided to err on the side of caution and check my oil.
NOTHING SHOWED ON DIPSTICK, SO I FILLED IT AND IT WENT UP BY THE QUART I ADDED. glad I checked it. Good news, no more oil light. Bad News perhaps I had a leaking seal.
Leaking Seal: I have never had any oil spots under my car, but upon looking I have bolt around camshaft pulley that are dark and oily. So maybe its a slow leak. Thankfully I have no squeal on my belt and it is still bone dry.
So I looked on here, on the evo forum, everywhere else online, all data.com, my chiltons and haynes, my service manual from a thread on here to get down the procedure of at least replacing cam seal and at most taking out all belts getting down to oil pump.
Judgment: At this point I will decide to diagnose this thing, for now I bought some carquest fully synthetic to go with synthetic oil i run (eneos). I will put another quart in and see if I get a reading on the oil dipstick, then check it often to see if level gets lower. Second, I already have a sandwich adapter and I will add an electronic oil pressure sender from glowshift. (I am aware that glowshift is a bit suspect but 1. specometer is hard to get in the US. 2. cost is low. 3. I figure any reading is better than none for oil pressure I can at least see if my pressure is rising or falling.)
I have done a compression check right before my last oil change and it was (13.5,14.0,14.1,14.1 BAR) or 195, 203, 204, 204 PSI. (any insight would be appreciated, i wonder why cyl 1 is low.
Once I get my gauge and install it I will take pressure reading with new full oil and watch what happens over the month and try to keep you all informed. Also If it comes to opening up the cam I will have my gf take pics to help out wit diagnosis.
Please post any help, advice, criticism, that you have on this issue, thanks.
already and update but i was able to get vdo gauge and sender and k&n oil filter for 58 shipped
NOTHING SHOWED ON DIPSTICK, SO I FILLED IT AND IT WENT UP BY THE QUART I ADDED. glad I checked it. Good news, no more oil light. Bad News perhaps I had a leaking seal.
Leaking Seal: I have never had any oil spots under my car, but upon looking I have bolt around camshaft pulley that are dark and oily. So maybe its a slow leak. Thankfully I have no squeal on my belt and it is still bone dry.
So I looked on here, on the evo forum, everywhere else online, all data.com, my chiltons and haynes, my service manual from a thread on here to get down the procedure of at least replacing cam seal and at most taking out all belts getting down to oil pump.
Judgment: At this point I will decide to diagnose this thing, for now I bought some carquest fully synthetic to go with synthetic oil i run (eneos). I will put another quart in and see if I get a reading on the oil dipstick, then check it often to see if level gets lower. Second, I already have a sandwich adapter and I will add an electronic oil pressure sender from glowshift. (I am aware that glowshift is a bit suspect but 1. specometer is hard to get in the US. 2. cost is low. 3. I figure any reading is better than none for oil pressure I can at least see if my pressure is rising or falling.)
I have done a compression check right before my last oil change and it was (13.5,14.0,14.1,14.1 BAR) or 195, 203, 204, 204 PSI. (any insight would be appreciated, i wonder why cyl 1 is low.
Once I get my gauge and install it I will take pressure reading with new full oil and watch what happens over the month and try to keep you all informed. Also If it comes to opening up the cam I will have my gf take pics to help out wit diagnosis.
Please post any help, advice, criticism, that you have on this issue, thanks.
already and update but i was able to get vdo gauge and sender and k&n oil filter for 58 shipped