Re: Re: RE: Re: Oil Consumption

From: TJ Goettner (TNJG999@email.msn.com)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2001 - 13:26:39 EST


I had to do the same thing with mine this week. It kept getting lower and
lower, just about every day.... I hooked a manual gauge up to mine and it
read 40psi at idle and 55 at 3K rpms. Made me feel a lot better. Now with
the new sender it reads just past half instead of a hair above low.

TJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Sulich" <ray.sulich@snet.net>
To: <dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: RE: Re: Oil Consumption

> At 08:16 AM 2/17/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >I've got 108000 miles on my 92 V6 CC. I doesn't use any oil between
changes,
> >haven't had a belly pan problem, and I wouldn't think twice about loading
the
> >family into it, hooking up the camper and going cross country with it. I
think
> >the big difference is I bought the truck new and have done all the
maintenance
> >on it. I know the truck is solid.
>
> Good point ! I feel alot better about the ole Dak now. I just replaced
> the oil pressure sending unit and the meter reads a little above half at
> idle and a bit higher at highway speed. It was reading right at the L
> marker or a little below at idle and maybe 2 needle widths higher at
> highway speed.
>
>
> Bye,
> Ray
>
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