Date:         Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:44:47 -0800
Reply-To:     Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From:         Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Oil Light On Intermittently
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At 08:26 AM 2/13/99 EST, you wrote:

>Ken,
> I put it into Drive, pulled away from the curb, and as soon as
>the auto trans shifted from first to second, the buzzer came on. I didn't
hear from it again for two days when it did it under almost
>the same conditions. Coming out of work, after sitting for 8 hours or so the
>light and buzzer again came on when shifting from 1st to second.  This time I
>pulled over and put it into Neutral and revved it a bit to see if that would
>bring up the oil pressure, but it stayed on.  I put it back into drive and
>drove off and it stayed on.  When I hit the next red light, I turned it off
>and re-started it and didnt hear from it again.

>Keith

The golden rule: always suspect connectors!  When this hapened to me years
ago hours of searching revealed a connector at the left side
bulkhead/firewall that joined the wires from the sending units to the loom
going forward; split the connector and careful perusal showed that the
swaged connector pins had not been fully seated in the plastic holders (at
the factory).  Pushed 'em home, reconnected, & no more problems since.
(vibration was causing intermittant make'n'breaks).

Austin