She left me stranded!
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O.C.
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Garden Grove Ca
She left me stranded!
When I was leaving work yesterday it seemed my gauges were not working. So I proceeded to make my way home. Then I noticed the temp gauge moving ( just a little. Since tuning the computer my temp stays at a little above 185). My volts guage was in it's usual spot. The oil temp and pressure gauges were still flatlined. So I started to hear tapping. I was on the side of the road in 2 seconds after I heard that.
Now I seems very apparent that my oil pump is gone. There are no fluid leaking from my engine. There was no smoke/steam coming from the engine nor was the engine unusually hot. I did a search but I could not find an R&R for the oil pump.
95 LT1 If anyone has a proceedure I would appreciate it.
Now I seems very apparent that my oil pump is gone. There are no fluid leaking from my engine. There was no smoke/steam coming from the engine nor was the engine unusually hot. I did a search but I could not find an R&R for the oil pump.
95 LT1 If anyone has a proceedure I would appreciate it.
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From: San Pedro CA
I find it so hard to believe that the pump died. I am betting more likely the drive or pickup failed.
These pumps are so very reliable... they are not prone to fail.
I am concerned that the system failed early on and he drove it quite a distance without oil... that's the scary part.
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Since his oil pressure guage flatlined, that's an indication his oil pump did, in fact, fail. I wonder what caused it to tank, though?
