Learned a valuable lesson this weekend
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Learned a valuable lesson this weekend
A few weeks ago I changed the oil in the ole blazer and I used a fram oil filter and supertech oil. My oil pressure was all over the map and even read zero psi at one point. I changed the sensor under the distributor which isn’t to hard to change with the distributor left in place and I have huge bear paws for hands! After a quick test drive the oil pressure was worse. No psi at idle but yet no knocking or rattling. I did another fresh oil change with a wix filter and oriellys 5w30 along with Lucas oil stabilizer. The oil pressure was the same. Zero to maybe 10 psi at 55 mph. I swapped out the oil pressure sensor to the one I removed and now with the fresh oil change and filter with old sensor I’m getting steady oil pressure.
Now long story short I discovered fram filters aren’t what they use to be. I’m chalking all the grief up to the filter. I’ll report back if things change.
my apologies for the novel. I wanted to be as thorough as possible.
Now long story short I discovered fram filters aren’t what they use to be. I’m chalking all the grief up to the filter. I’ll report back if things change.
my apologies for the novel. I wanted to be as thorough as possible.
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A few weeks ago I changed the oil in the ole blazer and I used a fram oil filter and supertech oil. My oil pressure was all over the map and even read zero psi at one point. I changed the sensor under the distributor which isn’t to hard to change with the distributor left in place and I have huge bear paws for hands! After a quick test drive the oil pressure was worse. No psi at idle but yet no knocking or rattling. I did another fresh oil change with a wix filter and oriellys 5w30 along with Lucas oil stabilizer. The oil pressure was the same. Zero to maybe 10 psi at 55 mph. I swapped out the oil pressure sensor to the one I removed and now with the fresh oil change and filter with old sensor I’m getting steady oil pressure.
Now long story short I discovered fram filters aren’t what they use to be. I’m chalking all the grief up to the filter. I’ll report back if things change.
my apologies for the novel. I wanted to be as thorough as possible.
Now long story short I discovered fram filters aren’t what they use to be. I’m chalking all the grief up to the filter. I’ll report back if things change.
my apologies for the novel. I wanted to be as thorough as possible.
Wow, that is weird about the Fram filter being the issue.
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From: Florida
A few weeks ago I changed the oil in the ole blazer and I used a fram oil filter and supertech oil. My oil pressure was all over the map and even read zero psi at one point. I changed the sensor under the distributor which isn’t to hard to change with the distributor left in place and I have huge bear paws for hands! After a quick test drive the oil pressure was worse. No psi at idle but yet no knocking or rattling. I did another fresh oil change with a wix filter and oriellys 5w30 along with Lucas oil stabilizer. The oil pressure was the same. Zero to maybe 10 psi at 55 mph. I swapped out the oil pressure sensor to the one I removed and now with the fresh oil change and filter with old sensor I’m getting steady oil pressure.
Now long story short I discovered fram filters aren’t what they use to be. I’m chalking all the grief up to the filter. I’ll report back if things change.
my apologies for the novel. I wanted to be as thorough as possible.
Now long story short I discovered fram filters aren’t what they use to be. I’m chalking all the grief up to the filter. I’ll report back if things change.
my apologies for the novel. I wanted to be as thorough as possible.
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