does anybody know what position the togle switch should be in under the hood for the low output. if your looking at the writing on the little black box i would imagine if the switch is pushed toward the writting that would be high and away would be low. just curious cant really tell by sound.

 

if you are facing the swich mine was left low right high if that helps i think you have it right

 

thanks i hope so . the reason i ask is my brothers is the other direction and it melted the wire from the resistor. which then fell apart and boom oil in the turbos again. so we think his is on high which is creating the problem. i wish they would have put high or low on the switch.

 

Let me help:

You should be able to hear noticable difference in pump speed when you toggle the switch. If your engine is too loud to hear the pump, then try both positions with the engine off by turning the ignition on without starting the car. The pump should run for 2 seconds. Try it twice and see what poisiton is louder (faster).

When the pump is on the slow setting, the voltage is sent through the resistor which gets slightly hotter than the surface of the sun, so don't touch it! This keep the pump in slow mode. With the switch in the fast position, it bypasses the resistor, sending full voltage to the pump. Therefore if your resistor connection is borken, set it on fast until you fix it. The car automatically switches to fast (when set on slow, of course), as soon as the car sees at least 1 pound of boost)

Any time the pump does not run, oil pressure will build in the return line causing problems (as you know!) This can occur if the pump is set on slow, and the connection to the resistor breaks off, as you mentioned above. Or, if on slow or high and something else cuts the power to the pump.

Did the alarm actually work when the pump was off? I would love to know if this works! Also, how long did you drive it with the pump not running?

Tommy

 

the alarm did work the car was parobably driven 20 feet. again the line acutally pulled apart from the resistor so would this mean that it was on low because it stop the pump from working. which would cause the oil to come out of the tailpipes

 

Exactly!

I'm always surprised how quickly oil seems to get into the tailpipes once the pump stops working. The pump only seems to dribble oil back into the valve cover...

Tommy

 

so if it was on high and the wire came apart from the resistor it would work or it wouldnt because the resistor is spliced in between the electrical wire to connect to the oil pump

 

If the resistor came off with the switch on high, the pump would continue to work fine. Keep in mind, the resistor does not get hot when the pump os on high, so it is very unlikely it would come apart.

Tommy

 

so if the wire came off the resistor and it was on high what would cause the alarm to go off and spit the oil threw the tailpipes. by the way thanks for all your help

 

The pump must have been on the low setting. OR, voltage was cut off to the pump while it was on high for some other reason...

Tommy

 

my alarm worked when my pump shut off cause the wire was loose