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post Feb 13, 2013 - 2:22 PM
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Sinyk



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Hey guys, I've been noticing lately that my oil light on my dash will flicker when I come to a stop. If I put the car in neutral (yes it's an auto) the oil light will stop flickering, but when it is in gear, it flickers. My oil level is topped up so it isn't that. This has been going on for a while but it seems like it went away for a while or I wasn't noticing but I sure am now!

I recently had my timing belt, water pump, cam seals and crank seals replaced. I did have a defective oil pressure sender unit in the past and they replaced it with the current one. I am wondering if it is also faulty? Heck I don't even know where it is located on the 5S-FE.

I tried googling the issue and there's a lot of things that it could be including the oil pump in the pan or the strainer being clogged.

Anyone else run into this issue and figure it out?


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post Feb 14, 2013 - 1:13 PM
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I had the same thing happen on my '96 Jeep Grand Cherokee: stop, and the oil pressure needle dropped to zero, chime goes off, and a message saying "Check Guages" came on. After a month of this, I got tired of it, and paid $20 for a new sending unit. The telltale sign on the Jeep was oil seeping past the sending unit, and onto the female connector. It took longer to drive to Autozone than the actual job. wink.gif

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