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Posted: 08-23-2006 04:05 pm

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mdutch

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              Thanks for the reply. I know about viscosity and how it changes when the engine is warm. My engine just started to read 40-45 lbs of oil pressure at 4000 RPMs doing about 70 MPH. [...]

                                   Joseph Mazurk

Joe,
   I had a similar problem for a while until I was informed that "modern synthetic oil" is too thin when hot to maintain proper pressure. Use good old fashioned Castrol I believe was the consensus. Once I changed the oil from 10w30 Mobil 1 to 30w Castrol, the pressure was normal.

Last edited on 08-23-2006 04:08 pm by mdutch