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Old 04-26-2007, 05:53 PM   #1
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-URGENT- Low oil Pressure!

During the begining of the week, I was driving down rt. 208 going home @ night. I accelerated rather hard on the on-ramp and I noticed it was lacking some power. As I was comming to my exit I noticed the idle was rough when i came to the stop sign and I started to hear a tapping noise, and all my guages lit up and the oil pressure dropped a little bit. I pulled the car over and turned it off imedietly I noticed the idle was rough when i came to a stop sign so I got underneath and noticed that the 02' sensor managed to disconect itself from the extensions. So I figured it was safe to drive it the next block or so to my house.

I reconnected the sensor before I left for school today and the car was fine. I started driving and noticed it was feeling very weak in power, and the closer I got the school I noticed the oil pressure on my dash was staying steady at 1/4 which I would assume is 20psi which is normal at idle but not at cruising speeds I was driving and the needle didn't change untill i came to stops where it would drop drastically. As soon as it dropped a hair above 0 the "check gages" would come on and the idle became really rough.

One serious thing I also noticed was excessive vibration in my clutch pedal.

I hope to god I didn't spin another bearing or damaged it. I checked my oil and the color was very clean as I just changed it maybe 2 weeks ago so I put in some oil in it because I noticed the stick was reading low on the operating zone.

Any suggestions?

It has a fairly new GM oil pump, but the sizing is for a stock LT1. Could the oil pump have failed causing an irratic idle?
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