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ive put in new oil the other day so the level is fine,
when i change my oil it was silver lol and i had chunks of metel in the sump that came of the vac pump, other then that there were no leaks anywhere on the car,
as for the oil pump i will give it a go,
when i was driving it home the other day the oil light came on so i stop and check it, the level was fine, so i thought the wire might of came lose but a i rev the car up the light turned off,
Hi Dragon2000,
If you haven't had the engine apart and by that I mean the front of the engine where you disturb the oil pump from my experience it is unlikely that the oil pump will suddenly stop working due to an air lock unless you actually ran out of oil.
Based on what you've told me now I would be heading for a mechanic who knows what to look for. It is very hard to diagnose things like this without seeing what you are dealing with.
As for breaking the vacuum pump, gee whizzer.......... So by what you have written it sounds like you've had the sump off to clean all the debris out. Has the engine had oil pressure since the sump has been back on? It sounds like it has. I'm assuming here you were driving home after removing the sump and putting new oil in, is that right?
I'm also assuming you cleaned the sump strainer as part of the sump removal excersise.
How did the vacuum pump break to a point that "chunks ended up in the sump", do yu know why the vacuum pump broke? This sounds like a pretty radical failure, and to me this would be an exception rather than something you would regard as a "normal" failure mechanism.
Have you tried a new oil pressure sender ?
Hi loanrangie,
I don't think the Dragon has got any oil circulating by all accounts............. understand where you are coming from, this jobbie sounds a little bit terminal unfortunately, I'll be interested to see what the outcome is.
yes there is no oil circulating whats so ever, checked in the rocker cover no oil getting up there.
Been to the mechanic he hopes it the oil pump (finger cross it is only that) but still have to check oil pressure.