you need to set up your own oil pressure gauge. The idiot light on the truck is just that. I have the scanguageII it does all it needs to do, and then some. Most folks here do the sandwich filter attachment for the oil pressure gauge. will cost you about 100 bucks. With your temps you might be able to run the 15-40 rotella for a few months. And in my opinion it is worth it. These old push rod engines can use all the help you can give them. I run it all year round I know phily does not get the cold you get all winter but we have nada few cold winters. Also you really should not flush as often as what you have in the short period of time. change out your oil and filter put in the better heavy duty diesal oil such as rotella and go have fun.

 

no real time oil pressure in the D2 computer. The scan gauge hooks into the obd2 and only that.


Also, If you have had this knock/tick before the incident, like I said, do not run 15w40 like suggested by others. It'll make the knock worse if you have clogged hydraulic lifters.

 

Dane,

Picked them up from the salvage yard. One of those you pull its. They had several Disco 1's and I scavenged them from it.

Edit: Also can be found on eBay.

 

Mounted it to the ashtray with the car kit. Using a Bluetooth transmitter to send the signal to my stereo via the aux port.

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Since no one has explained it -

The main reason to run a diesel oil is it has more ZDDP which helps reduce valve train wear in flat tappet camshaft engines. The secondary reason to run a diesel oil is it has more detergent, and these engines seem to run very dirty. It's so cold where you live you could run 5w-30, but you'd lose the ZDDP (they don't make a diesel 5w-30 AFAIK), which is bad.

There is no advantage to running 15w-40 besides the fact that it is cheaper. I've been running 5w-40 for a year in warm temps and have had no additional leakage. Most engine wear happens immediately after startup (especially when ambient temps are cold), and the cold 5w will lubricate faster than a cold 15w.

This forum loves Rotella 15w-40 for some reason, but my truck and my van both sounded terrible running it. I barely made it to 3k miles before changing it, and I'll never run it again. Both Rotella T6 and M1 TDT are much better oils IMO. And with your ambient temps, they are a much more appropriate choice.

 

We talked about the zinc, just buy the 8$ bottle of it and add it in each oil change if you really think its worth it.

 

Got my Glow Shift Oil pressure gauge in the mail Friday and installed it this morning. Great little gadget, couldn't have been easier to install.

Took it for a drive up the mountain and back and when I would stop at stop signs oil pressure at idle was a solid 14PSI. After about 30 minutes I put it back in my driveway and just before I was turning it off the pressure was holding at 9psi at idle. A little below the Rave threshold.

Think that is grounds for dropping the oil pan and cleaning everything out or is there a better path forward to try and get idle oil pressure up a hair?

 

Your main bearings are probably worn. You could pull the pan and clean it out, when I did it must of had 2-3" of carbon buildup on the bottom of the pan. I would pull the oil pickup tube also and clean it while your down there, replace the o-ring, and torque it to spec back on there.

 

2-3 inches of carbon might explain why she doesn't take a full load of oil. I can only get ~5.5-6 qts in before she's full, which has led me to believe that sludge and carbon are occupying a significant amount of volume in the block.

I'm ordering the sump gasket and pick up o-ring today so they're here for next weekend.

Any gamblers out there can place bets on how long I spend getting the old gasket off. If it's anything like my waterpump experience it'll be a case of beer and three evenings.

 

The oil sump gasket is rubber and it comes off easy unlike the paper gasket on the water pump. You have to take the oil sump off to take the front cover off so you will be half way there already. It might be worth it to just spend $200 and install new timing chain kit and oil pump gears now.
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