so i was driving my car today and when i came to a stop light my car started to idle funny then shut off at the same time as i stopped my oil light was flashing i checked oil wasn't low checked oil sending unit it was plugged in so i started it up and it was doing a idle surge and oil light was still flashing so then i pulled over into a gas station and looked over the car some more for anything leaking but found nothing so i let the car sit for a while and started back up and idle surging was gone and oil light was off but i cant seem to figure out why it idle surged and why my oil light started flashing im getting a oil pressure gauge tonight to see if maybe my oil pump is starting to give out

 

ps sorry for the punctuation. also i got the car street tuned yesterday and with about 10 or 11 wot pulls it showed no signs of stalling and no oil lights until today

 

Get a manual oil pressure gauge and check your oil pressure.

If your oil light came on due to low oil pressure...the sensor was seeing less than like 5-7 lbs of oil pressure.

 

yea im hoping to get one this week end

 

Well, don't be a brain-dead idiot and drive the car....unless you WANT to rebuilt your engine.

 

No it's staying parked

 

would it be better to hook up the oil pressure gauge on my sandwich plate or replace the oil sending unit with the gauge

 

so i finally got a oil pressure gauge put on my car at idle im at 20 psi and at 3k til about 8300 im at 80 psi so i would assume oil pump is good what i did notice is that from first start up til about 160 miles on the engine i was running valvoline 5w30 i did a oil change yesterday and switch to castrol 10w30 and it made a significant diffrence car seems to run a lot stronger and it dosent seem to stumble and dip low in rpms anymore also i think my oil sending unit was leaking