I was driving my car down the freeway today and all of a sudden my oil light popped on. I checked my autometer oil pressure gauge and it registered no pressure at all. I quickly shut the car down within 5 seconds and pulled it to the side of the road. The motor has 99k on it and it is an h22a1. What do i do? Swap in a jdm longblock? Get it fixed? What tests should I run before deciding? All input is greatly appreciated thanks in advance

 

- check for obvious leaks, especially on the back of the block where you put your pressure sensor.

- check oil level. if low, return of normal level.


99% chance that one of these two items needed attention. once fixed, start car. if it runs fine, you're lucky. if not, get new engine.

 

If the car ran for 5 sec. without oil pressure, I think you should be fine.

Sounds like a bad oil pump to me. I am not sure of the cost to replace.

 

I forgot to mention i checked the oil level and it's normal. What do you reccommend i do?

 

full lvl then i would suspect the oil pump.

 

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Nice job on stopping early before the real damage came to play.

 

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yeah, this happened to me before, but the cause of it was different. i had a hose from breather hole hooked up to the piping between my compressor and filter. every time i hit boost it would pull out out and into my compressor. that is why i guess i always smelled oil burning. after 1500 miles i was wondering why the hell my oil light came on. i barely drove because i was half a block away from kragens. pulled in the parking lot and threw in 2 bottles of oil and it was back to where it should be. did an oil change later and i cut the hose in half and ziptied the part of the hose that was connected to my compressor/filter piping.