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hello all - really good forum, full of interesting stuff.
here's my first post, and its a potential problem i think. I recently had a new clutch put in, and when i collected the car, the dash oil level guage was off the scale. i went for a run to warm the oil, and when i checked the level by dip stick it was up to the maximum, but no further. should be okay i thought, but i have heard that you should always run a litre or so light to allow for heat expansion. time didn't permit dropping a bit out the bottom though, and i thought i'd skate away with it for a week - only about 50 miles or so.
now however, the pressure guage is behaving very oddly - it will jump around the scale from 4 bar to 2 when the revs are constant (the engine doesn't seem any different, and performance is unchanged). no smoke at any time from the back.
have i:
a) a knackered guage. [
]
b) a knackered sender (and where is it?) [
]
c) a more serious engine problem. [:'(]
i've dropped the level now, but symptoms persist. help hugely appreciated.
adam
here's my first post, and its a potential problem i think. I recently had a new clutch put in, and when i collected the car, the dash oil level guage was off the scale. i went for a run to warm the oil, and when i checked the level by dip stick it was up to the maximum, but no further. should be okay i thought, but i have heard that you should always run a litre or so light to allow for heat expansion. time didn't permit dropping a bit out the bottom though, and i thought i'd skate away with it for a week - only about 50 miles or so.
now however, the pressure guage is behaving very oddly - it will jump around the scale from 4 bar to 2 when the revs are constant (the engine doesn't seem any different, and performance is unchanged). no smoke at any time from the back.
have i:
a) a knackered guage. [
b) a knackered sender (and where is it?) [
c) a more serious engine problem. [:'(]
i've dropped the level now, but symptoms persist. help hugely appreciated.
adam